Because that is the logical equivalent of your advice!

No. A construed analogy is not a logical equivalent.

My advice is to go with the framework, and try to use features of the framework rather than bending it, or mix in stuff which might lead to problems.

It just so happens that Tk can be used together with threads, but it wasn't written using threads - has it even been designed with threads in mind?

The OP was about a Tk problem, so I have posted a solution which works making use of Tk and its features. It was not me who was reaching for something entirely different, but you!

My solution might induce the wish to get a deeper understanding of how Tk works, and how to use it's lesser known internals directly - your solution of using threads just avoids a black spot which isn't in the toolkit, but in the knowledge of its user, and places on him the intellectual weight of understanding how's that thread stuff works and how to avoid pitfalls combining both... I remember you wrote something along that lines in a fine post elsewhere... ;-)

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