Tkinter managing my event loops alongside my mainloop

Question

I\'ve been slowly learning Tkinter and object-oriented programming but I\'ve programmed myself into a corner with this one. please forgive my lack of critical thinking on th

Answer 1

You already have an infinite loop running, so you shouldn't be trying to add another one. Instead, you can use the after method to cause a function to be repeatedly called every so often. In your case, you can replace this:

def updateStock(self):
   while True:
        labelName = str(s) + "Label"
        stockPrice = get_quote(s)
        self.labelName = Label(self.myContainer1, text = s.upper() + ": " + str(stockPrice))
        self.labelName.pack()
        time.sleep(10)

... with this:

def updateStock(self):
    labelName = str(s) + "Label"
    stockPrice = get_quote()
    self.labelName = Label(self.myContainer1, text = s.upper() + ": " + str(stockPrice))
    self.labelName.pack()
    self.after(10000, self.updateStock)

This will get a quote, add a label, then arrange for itself to be called again in 10 seconds (10,000 ms).

However, I doubt that you want to create a new label every 10 seconds, do you? Eventually the window will fill up with labels. Instead, you can create a label once, then update the label in each iteration. For example, create self.label once in the init, then in the loop you can do:

self.labelName.configure(text=s.upper() + ": " + str(stockPrice))