【转载】tkinter中update和updateidletasks的区别

What are pending events? Events scheduled with after, mostly. And, as you also mentioned in your question, events that trigger a redraw.

The circumstances when you should use update over update_idletasks? Almost never. In all honesty, my pragmatic answer is “never call update unless calling update_idletasks doesn’t do enough”.

The important thing to remember is that update blocks until all events are processed. In effect, that means you have a mainloop nested inside a mainloop. It’s never a good idea to have an infinite loop inside an infinite loop.

If you see examples where one is called after the other, you’re looking at bad examples. Honestly, there’s absolutely no reason whatsoever to do that. A lot of code I see calls update way more often than it ever should.