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Unfortunately, not. The bug report was created
right before I was going on vacation last summer.
Since I'm still on vacation... :,)

Well...actually the assumed high "head banger"
factor has facilitated my procrastination.
Additionally, since I do not use use IDLE, I'm not
very motivated to build a debuggable Python and
Cygwin and attach to the hung process with gdb and
debug.

FWIW, I haven't forgetton. The bug report
stares me in the face everytime I read my email.
Unfortunately, I haven't taken any action. :,(

Are you a developer type? If so, would you be
willing to try to debug this problem yourself?