Threaded Tkinter script crashes when creating the second Toplevel widget

Question

I have a Python script which uses Tkinter for the GUI. My little script should create a Toplevel widget every X seconds. When I run my code, the first Toplevel widget is created successfully, but when it tries to create a second one the program crashes.

What I am doing is using the after method to call the function startCounting every 5 seconds alongside root's mainloop. Every time this function is called, I append a Toplevel widget object into a list and start a new thread which hopefully will be running the new mainloop.

I would be very grateful if someone could figure this problem out. By the way, this is just a little script that I am currently using to solve my problem, which is preventing me from going on with my real school project.

The code:

import threading,thread
from Tkinter import *


def startCounting():
    global root
    global topLevelList
    global classInstance

    topLevelList.append (Toplevel())
    topLevelList[len(topLevelList)-1].title("Child")
    classInstance.append(mainLoopThread(topLevelList[len(topLevelList)-1]))

    root.after(5000,startCounting)


class mainLoopThread(threading.Thread):
    def __init__(self,toplevelW):
        self.toplevelW = toplevelW
        threading.Thread.__init__(self)
        self.start()
    def run(self):
        self.toplevelW.mainloop()



global classInstance
classInstance = []
global topLevelList
topLevelList = []
global root

root = Tk() 
root.title("Main")
startCounting()
root.mainloop()

Answer 1

Tkinter has issues dealing with input from multiple threads, I use mtTkinter instead, you won't need to change any code and everything will work fine. Just import mtTkinter instead of Tkinter.

You can get it here:

http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/mtTkinter