GTK+ thread problem (program freezing using these 2 GTK+ commands...)

[seberino spawar navy mil]

We have a Python GTK+ program that uses threads.  
If we DON'T run the GTK+ GUI
code then multitasking is fine and every thread gets a little CPU time.

If we run a GTK+ GUI in the main parent process/thread then program
freezes.

The PyGTK commands called gtk.threads.thread_enter() and
gtk.gdk.threads_leave() are used to avoid conflicts caused by
two threads writing to GUI at the same time.  The disallow/allow
other threads to write to GUI as needed.

It would seem that the problem are with these two commands but
we cannot seem to find the problem.  As you know, threads
are not the easiest things to debug.

We are wondering if Python threads are unstable.
Are they??

Any ideas at all how to begin to solve this?

Chris

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