[Python-Dev] Drop/deprecate Tkinter? (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed May 2 21:59:39 EDT 2018

On 5/2/2018 6:01 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Wed, 2 May 2018 22:54:04 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

His other email seems reasonable, and warrants a response, yes. But are we to take the suggestion made here (to drop tkinter) seriously, based on the fact that there's a (rare - at least it appears that the many IDLE users haven't hit it yet) race condition that causes a crash in Python 2.7? (It appears that the problem doesn't happen in the python.org 3.x builds, if I understand the description of the issue).

I got the same impression, and indeed got no crashes in 25 tries.

I and others actually suggested it seriously in the past. Now, admittedly, at least IDLE seems better maintained than it used to be -- not sure about Tkinter itself.

Serhiy continues to work on tkinter even though he now works on much else. We just made an overlooked 2to3 fix last week.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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