Python asyncio and tkinter Together with TCP and UDP
February 3rd, 2017
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I finally figured out at least one way to have a Python tkinter app use asyncio event loops, so I thought I should share it. In the end, the solution was simply running an asyncio event loop on another thread. I hope one day Python will merge the two event loops, but for now this works OK.
I have this on pastebin also:
The key points are extracted here:
# Thread that will handle io loop def _run(loop): asyncio.set_event_loop(loop) loop.run_forever() ioloop = asyncio.new_event_loop() asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(_connect(), loop=ioloop) # Schedules connection t = threading.Thread(target=partial(_run, ioloop)) t.daemon = True # won't hang app when it closes t.start() # Server will connect now