<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><br>
</div>There's a whole lot of stuff being run after Activity.__init__() before<br>
the activity is actually "started" (take a look at the source [1]).<br>
I haven't looked into it closely, but I suspect that your early<br>
self.close() hangs because the widgets are not set up yet.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> Maybe I should put self.close() into a gobject.idle_add( )?</div></div>