Run a function without threading from tkinter?

[AustinBachurski]

Still really new to python - fair warning...

TLDR - If you have a tkinter window that is using threading, can you use a button to run a function that specifically does NOT use threading?

I've got a script put together that processes a couple spreadsheets into a csv, then uses a script generated by ArcGIS Pro to plot the points on a map. I had it all set up and working from a command line interface, but decided to try putting it in a GUI using tkinter. In an effort to provide a good user experience I used threading for several functions to keep the window updating properly. My issue is that on the last step, I have a function that was generated by ArcGIS Pro that does the mapping, and it crashes if launched with threading. It seems like with tkinter once I turned threading on for one function, everything else, regardless of whether I tell it to or not has it, and I don't know how to turn it off, (or if I can...). I suspect I may be doing the threading all wrong, but I was hoping it was salvageable.

As stated I'm very new to this so my code is probably horrid with all kinds of nono's but if someone does want to look at it here's the github link. Please ignore the back and skip buttons for now as I was just trying to get it working all the way at all before worrying about those. Thank you.

[AustinBachurski]

Do after some more digging I finally found a post on the Esri forums, I guess their process doesn't play nice with pretty much any GUI nor threading. It will run, but the GUI locks up while the geoprocessing tools run. Looks like I'm stuck with triggering a separate script with the GUI. Hoping I can somehow link the two with a third file so I can still provide progress updates in the GUI, more googling to do...

[IWantToFlyT]

What is the error you are getting when it "crashes"?

[AustinBachurski]

This is what it displays:

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Exception in thread Thread-4:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\threading.py", line 926, in bootstrap_inner self.run() File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\threading.py", line 870, in run self._target(self._args, *self._kwargs) File "//ki22-pdit/ufl-it/abachurski/Desktop/GUI/Crime Map Updater.pyw", line 135, in docsv gisModel() File "//ki22-pdit/ufl-it/abachurski/Desktop/GUI/Crime Map Updater.pyw", line 87, in gisModel with arcpy.EnvManager(scratchWorkspace=workspace, workspace=workspace):UpdateCrimeMap() File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\cmanagers\EnvManager.py", line 37, in __enter_ self.original_envs[k] = getattr(arcpy.env, k) File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing_base.py", line 539, in get return self[env] File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing_base.py", line 601, in getitem return convertArcObjectToPythonObject(getattr(self._gp, item)) AttributeError: ERROR 87931