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Keeping the GUI responsive while the application does some CPU-heavy processing is one of the challenges of effective GUI programming.
Here’s a good discussion of how to do this in wxPython. To summarize, there are 3 ways:
Which method have you found to be the most effective ? Techniques from other frameworks (like Qt, GTK or Windows API) are also welcome.
Threads. They’re what I always go for because you can do it in every framework you need.
And once you’re used to multi-threading and parallel processing in one language/framework, you’re good on all frameworks.