> On 2 May 2018, at 22:51, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <python-dev@python.org> > wrote: > > As https://bugs.python.org/issue33257 and https://bugs.python.org/issue33316 > showed, Tkinter is broken, for both Py2 and Py3, with both threaded and > non-threaded Tcl, since 2002 at least, and no-one gives a damn.
The second issue number doesn’t refer to a Tkinter issue, the former is about a month old and has reactions from a core developer. That’s not “nobody cares”. > > This seems to be a testament that very few people are actually interested in > or are using it. Not necessarily, it primarily reflects that CPython is volunteer-driven project. This appears to be related to the interaction of Tkinter and threads, and requires hacking on C code. That seriously shrinks the pool of people that feel qualified to work on this. > > If that's so, there's no use keeping it in the standard library -- if > anything, because there's not enough incentive and/or resources to support > it. And to avoid screwing people (=me) up when they have the foolishness to > think they can rely on it in their projects -- nowhere in the docs it is said > that the module is only partly functional. Tkinter is used fairly often as an easily available GUI library and is not much as you imply. I don’t know how save calling GUI code from multiple threads is in general (separate from this Tkinter issue), but do know that this is definitely not save across platforms: at least on macOS calling GUI methods in Apple’s libraries from secondary threads is unsafe unless those methods are explicitly documented as thread-safe. Ronald > > -- > > Regards, > Ivan > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ronaldoussoren%40mac.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
