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IDLE crashes when printing some unprintable characters. #57474

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RamchandraApte mannequin opened this issue Oct 26, 2011 · 8 comments
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IDLE crashes when printing some unprintable characters. #57474

RamchandraApte mannequin opened this issue Oct 26, 2011 · 8 comments
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RamchandraApte mannequin commented Oct 26, 2011

BPO 13265
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  • bpo-12342: characters with ord above 65535 fail to display in IDLE
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closed_at = <Date 2011-10-30.21:45:57.348>
created_at = <Date 2011-10-26.05:48:48.777>
labels = ['expert-IDLE']
title = 'IDLE crashes when printing some unprintable characters.'
updated_at = <Date 2011-10-30.21:45:57.347>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/RamchandraApte'

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closed_date = <Date 2011-10-30.21:45:57.348>
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creation = <Date 2011-10-26.05:48:48.777>
creator = 'Ramchandra Apte'
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priority = 'normal'
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    RamchandraApte mannequin commented Oct 26, 2011 

    When you print an unprintable character, IDLE raises an error.
>>> print(chr(500304)) # print an unprintable character
The error is only visible when you run the code from a commmand-line.
When you run python from the command-line and execute the code it shows
the unprintable character symbol (looks like []).

    @RamchandraApte RamchandraApte mannequin added type-crash A hard crash of the interpreter, possibly with a core dump topic-IDLE labels Oct 26, 2011
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    RamchandraApte mannequin commented Oct 26, 2011

    Here's the Error message.
    *** Internal Error: rpc.py:SocketIO.localcall()

    Object: stdout
    Method: <bound method PseudoFile.write of <idlelib.PyShell.PseudoFile object at 0x2675550>>
    Args: ('\U0007a250',)

    Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/rpc.py", line 188, in localcall
    ret = method(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1220, in write
    self.shell.write(s, self.tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1202, in write
    OutputWindow.write(self, s, tags, "iomark")
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/OutputWindow.py", line 40, in write
    self.text.insert(mark, s, tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/Percolator.py", line 25, in insert
    self.top.insert(index, chars, tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/ColorDelegator.py", line 79, in insert
    self.delegate.insert(index, chars, tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 312, in insert
    UndoDelegator.insert(self, index, chars, tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/UndoDelegator.py", line 81, in insert
    self.addcmd(InsertCommand(index, chars, tags))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/UndoDelegator.py", line 116, in addcmd
    cmd.do(self.delegate)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/UndoDelegator.py", line 219, in do
    text.insert(self.index1, self.chars, self.tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/ColorDelegator.py", line 79, in insert
    self.delegate.insert(index, chars, tags)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/WidgetRedirector.py", line 104, in __call__
    return self.tk_call(self.orig_and_operation + args)
ValueError: unsupported character

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    RamchandraApte mannequin commented Oct 26, 2011

    My OS is Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
    Running uname -a gives "Linux ramcomputer 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

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    Both print(chr(500304)) and print('\U0007a250') seem to work and print two empty boxes on IDLE with Python 3.2/WinXP.

    Is that error displayed in the IDLE window or does IDLE crash and you see the error somewhere else?

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    RamchandraApte mannequin commented Oct 26, 2011

    The error is visible from the command-line.

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    With a current 3.3 build (i.e. "wide" build) on OS X, I can reproduce this. It causes an exception on the execution of that command in the IDLE shell but it doesn't crash IDLE. Not surprisingly, it doesn't seem to be reproducible with 3.2 "narrow" builds.

    @ned-deily ned-deily removed the type-crash A hard crash of the interpreter, possibly with a core dump label Oct 26, 2011
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    serwy mannequin commented Oct 30, 2011

    I can reproduce the problem with Ubuntu 11.04 with Python 3.2. The WidgetRedirector calls tk_call with a tuple containing unencoded Unicode strings.

    Attached is a patch to encode all arguments if the argument has the "encode" attribute. This seems to fix the problem, but can someone who knows more about Python and Tk's Unicode handling take a look?

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    Sorry, I should have noticed earlier that this is a duplicate of bpo-12342. The problem is simply that Tcl/Tk does not currently support the display of Unicode code points outside of the BMP. The question then is what IDLE to do when asked to display such characters. The current behavior of letting tkinter detect the unsupported code point and bubbling up a somewhat unhelpful exception message is not the most user-friendly response. Let's continue any discussion of this over on the earlier issue.

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