Freezing/Hanging tkinter GUI in waiting for the thread to complete

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For anyone having a problem with sys.exit(1) in @martineau’s code – if you replace sys.exit(1) with self.master.destroy() the program ends gracefully. I lack the reputation to add a comment, hence the seperate answer.

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