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IDLE crash when typing ^ character on Mac OS X #59032

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JPEC mannequin opened this issue May 16, 2012 · 7 comments
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IDLE crash when typing ^ character on Mac OS X #59032

JPEC mannequin opened this issue May 16, 2012 · 7 comments
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OS-mac topic-IDLE type-crash A hard crash of the interpreter, possibly with a core dump

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JPEC mannequin commented May 16, 2012

BPO 14827
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title = 'IDLE crash when typing ^ character on Mac OS X'
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JPEC mannequin commented May 16, 2012

IDLE crash when i type the character ^ (for example writing "ê" in a comment).

I have the crash only on Mac OS X (Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit Installer (3.2.3) for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7).

I don't have this crash on Linux.

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RamchandraApte mannequin commented May 16, 2012

Please run IDLE from the command line and send the output when it crashes. (If I knew Mac better I would tell you the precise instructions)

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JPEC mannequin commented May 16, 2012

I'll send the output this evening.

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Do you have a recent version of ActiveState's Tcl/Tk distribution installed?

If you do not have this installed you ran into a known issue in Apple's copy of Tcl/Tk, see <http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/\> for more information.

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JPEC mannequin commented May 16, 2012

My system is an up to date OS X 10.7.
The Tcl/Tk package is the default (I haven't installed a specific version).
Should i need to install the ActiveState package ?

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Yes. As the webpage I mentioned describes Apple's installation of Tcl/Tk contains a number of serious bugs, one of which is that Tk's handling of dead keys (the "^" you use write "û") causes crashes.

To get a fully functional copy of Idle you'll have to install ActiveState's Tcl/Tk as well.

We could ship a copy of Tk in the installer as well, but have chosen not to do that because the installer is large enough as it is. Furthermore the Cocoa port of Tcl/Tk is at this time still a moving target, which means that we couldn't even ship the same version of Tcl/Tk for the entire lifetime of Python 3.2.x.

Please let us know if installing ActiveState's Tcl/Tk fixes the crash, I expect it will but you might have run into yet another Tk bug.

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JPEC mannequin commented May 16, 2012

Installing ActiveState's Tcl/Tk package fix the crash.
Thank you for your answers.

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