non blocking info dialog in Tkinter

I need a simple info box to display some status output, that I would alternatively dump to the console using `print`. The easiest possibility that I found is the following: ``` import Tkinter as tk root = tk.Tk() root.withdraw() from tkMessageBox import showinfo showinfo('some caption', 'some info') ``` The only problem with this implementation is that my program (not written in Tkinter) will not continue running, until the 'ok' button of the `showinfo` messagebox is pressed. That is, the `showinfo` dialog will block. Therefore my question: Is there a simple way to make `showinfo` non-blocking? Are there alternative messagebox implementations in Tkinter that are non-blocking? I can think of the typical use-cage of showing a help page - the window should open and the main program keeps on running normally. EDIT1: here's a simple help window that I came up with, but unfortunately it doesn't show up, unless I launch a different `tkMessageBox` or a similar object: ``` class TextInfo(object): def __init__(self, parent, window_title = 'window', textfield = 'a text field', label = None): self.top = tk.Toplevel(parent) self.parent = parent self.window_title = window_title self.textfield = textfield # set window title if window_title: self.top.title(window_title) # add label if given if label: tk.Label(self.top, text=window_title).grid(row=0) # create the text field self.textField = tk.Text(self.top, width=80, height=20, wrap=tk.NONE) if textfield: self.textField.insert(1.0, textfield) self.textField.grid(row=1) # create the ok button b = tk.Button(self.top, text="OK", command=self.ok) b.grid(row=2) def ok(self): self.top.destroy() ``` And this is how I call the window: ``` root = tk.Tk() root.withdraw() TextInfo(self.root, window_title, textfield, label) # don't call root.mainloop() here, because this will lead to blocking. ``` Is there some kind of property or event that I need to set for the window to show up? If I call `root.mainloop()` the window will show up, but then my GUI is blocked again.