[Python-Dev] Re: anyone tried Python 2.0 with Tk 8.3.2? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@beopen.com
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:25:57 -0500

> doesn't work too well for me -- Tkinter.test() tends to hang > when I press quit (not every time, though). the only way to > shut down the process is to reboot.

hmm. it looks like it's more likely to hang if the program uses unicode strings. Tkinter.test() hangs about 2 times out of three same goes for a simple test program that passes a unicode string constant (containing Latin-1 chars) to a Label the same test program using a Latin-1 string (which, I suppose, is converted to Unicode inside Tk) hangs in about 1/3 of the runs. the same test program with a pure ASCII string never hangs... confusing.

Try going back to Tk 8.2.

We had this problem with Tk 8.3.1 in Python 1.6a1; for a2, I went back to 8.2.x (the latest). Then for 1.6b1 I noticed that 8.3.2 was out and after a light test it appeared to be fine, so I switched to 8.3.2. But I've seen this too, and maybe 8.3 still isn't stable enough.

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