Python's tkAqua is broken by 10.6 upgrade, how do I fix it?

[bollweevil]

I just upgraded from Mac OS X 10.5 to 10.6, and now "Python quit[s] unexpectedly" every time I execute certain functions. The error printed to the terminal says:

Tk_MacOSXSetupTkNotifier: first [load] of TkAqua has to occur in the main thread!

Anybody know how I can fix this? I really don't want to change my Python version right now, I am using Python 2.5 (r25:51918). Thanks.

[bollweevil]

Any ideas? I still can't fix it.

[pnelis]

Sorry, no help, but I have exactly the same problem and wondered if and how you might have solved it in the mean time?

Thanks a lot.

Piet Nelis
The Netherlands

[wrldwzrd89]

The error Python is giving you suggests to me that Python isn't broken, but rather the program you're writing in it is. Tcl/Tk doesn't like being initialized from threads other than the main one... if you try (for instance, the first GUI window your program creates is to display a progress bar for some long task, and the task is entirely self-contained in a thread) you'll get that error.