#🔒 how to properly close a script? without memory leaks or hidden background processes?

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@still wasp

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wary elk
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Most things should close themselves when your script quits.

If you've dispatched subprocesses, they need to be waited for, or tidies up, or ok to keep running - they're outside the Python interpreter's scope.

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Threads will be joined by Python before it quits anyway (so they do need to be told to stop) except for daemon threads, which Python will terminate.

still wasp
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so i just keep it as is ?

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is root.quit better than root.destroy?

wary elk
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fluid plumeBOT
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Hey @still wasp!

Please edit your message to use a code block

```py
print('Hello, world!')
```

This will result in the following:

print('Hello, world!')```
still wasp
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im afraid of threading, pymem, and tkinter

wary elk
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You'll have to make your own decisions about how the subprocesses are handled.

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What are you using the threads for?

still wasp
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to auto update

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running the script after editing it over and over again

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kinda slows down my pc sometimes

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so thats why i want an efficient exit

wary elk
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root.destroy() just removes the root window and its descendands. root.quit() quits the GUI mainloop.

Exiting your programme should do both for you automatically.

Bookmark this page: https://tkdocs.com/shipman/universal.html

wary elk
still wasp
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i just bookmarked

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yes

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because i have it close and open

wary elk
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You should probably show the threads code.

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If it's just sitting there waiting for changes, you could make it a daemon thread, then Python will tidy it up.

still wasp
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i see

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im looking at the page you linked me

wary elk
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I know nothing about pymem.

still wasp
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it answers alot of questions

fluid plumeBOT
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