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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 necessary to stimulate the failure;
even commenting out the sleep(100) to make it return
immediately avoides the spurious exit.  When the second
thread is running, the self.root.after(...) call
apparently causes a silent exit rather than returning.

Any help/ideas would be appreciated...

- Steve Ward


# Demonstrate python/Tkinter threading bug


class App:

def __init__(self, root):

        self.root = root
        self.update_loop()

        # Start a second thread, to do whatever...
        self.thread = threading.Thread(target=self.second_thread)
        self.thread.start()

    def update_loop(self):
        print >>sys.stderr, "*** update_loop"
        self.root.after(400, self.update_loop)

    def second_thread(self):
        sleep(100)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    root = TK.Tk()
    app = App(root)
    root.mainloop();

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