Re: Python Tkinter after method silently exits (corrected)

I've encountered the same "silent exit" problem in a multi-threaded Python Tkinter program also. I'm guessing that the Python interpreter hits an error starting a thread, so it calls exit(), and that the thread changes in cygwin 1.5.19 relative to 1.5.18 caused the problem we're seeing. My program

Re: Python Tkinter after method silently exits (corrected)

[Sorry for the spam; a paste bug omitted imports from the original program. I've consolidated my previous 2 emails here; please ignore the earlier ones]. On upgrading to the latest 1.5.19-4 cygwin release, I find that several previously working python programs began mysteriously exiting. I'v

Re: Python Tkinter after method silently exits

I should have mentioned: I'm using python 2.4.1 (the current cygwin distribution) in both cases. The test program fails with a current, up-to-date cygwin setup; downgrading ONLY cygwin1.dll to 1.5.18-1 causes it to work, suggesting that the problem is with cygwin1.dll rather than with python. -

Python Tkinter after method silently exits

On upgrading to the latest 1.5.19-4 cygwin release, I find that several previously working python programs began mysteriously exiting. I've boiled the problem down to a skeletal test program (attached), which runs under the prior 1.5.18-1 release but exits under 1.5.19-4. The second thread seems