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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example
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Tkinter GUI Programming by Example

by David Love
April 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
340 pages
7h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Using threads

When writing a Python application, all of the code will run in a single thread by default. This means that, as you read down a file, each line will be carried out one at a time. A piece of code cannot run if there is another piece above it which is executing a large task.

If we wanted to carry out multiple tasks at the same time, there are a couple of different ways we could go about doing so. One way is the use of a thread. When using a thread, the operating system will be able to quickly switch between two running pieces of code so quickly that it appears as if they are being executed at the same time. This means that if you have a function which takes a lot of processing, you are able to do multiple smaller tasks in the time ...

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