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How do I change the mouse pointer to the default 'wait' icon during a short operation in tkinter?

May 12th, 2000 08:55
unknown unknown, Fredrik Lundh, John Grayson

Use:

root.config(cursor="wait")
root.config(cursor="")

Or:

Look at page 369 of John Grayson's book - Python and Tkinter Programming

You might want to look at Pmw's BLT busy cursor 
for a full busy cursor implementation.