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Asked: 2026-06-01T09:37:45+00:00

I have been learning Python2.7 for a little bit now. I’m using Windows 7

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I have been learning Python2.7 for a little bit now. I’m using Windows 7 64 bit BTW. I started learning GUI’s and have been trying to use wxpython and IDLE for this. So I type out some code:

import wx
app = wx.App()
win = wx.Frame(None)
win.Show()
app.MainLoop()

I run the program, and the window pops up, but the blue doughnut is there. I try to close the window, and it says that pythonw.exe is not responding. Another window pops up about wxpython. It says:

wxPython stdout/stderr(Not Responding)

Traceback (most recent call last):
**IDLE Internal Exception:
File "C:\Python27\lib\idlelib\run.py", line 93, in main
seq, request = rpc.request_queue.get(block=True, timeout=0.05)
File "C:\Python27\lib\Queue.py", line 177, in get
self.not_empty.wait(remaining)
File "C:\Python27\lib\threading.py", line 263, in wait
_sleep(delay)
typeError: 'int' object is not callable

What is wrong and how do I fix it?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The crash is most likely happening at the point when you try and start the event loop. See this bug report: http://bugs.python.org/issue989712

    Seems someone else has gone as far to try and create an extension to handle this ability: http://idlex.sourceforge.net/extensions.html

    Basically, don’t do this from IDLE. Write a script and run it from the shell or the script directly if in windows, by naming it with a .pyw extension and double clicking it. There is apparently a conflict between IDLE’s own event loop and the ones from GUI toolkits.

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