I moved the idlerc to the disabled folder like you recommended and I
haven't been able to reproduce the error again. I'll cautiously take this
as an indication of a fix, but will update if it changes.

Thank you!

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Ned Deily <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> Ned Deily added the comment:
>
> I've not seen any reports of this behavior before.  Can you try two
> things?  One, try temporarily disabling your current IDLE preferences. Quit
> IDLE, then from a terminal shell, type something like:
>
> mv ~/.idlerc ~/.idlerc-disabled
>
> then launch IDLE and try the paren again.  If that doesn't help, try
> temporarily disabling the ActiveState Tk.  Again, quit IDLE. Then, from a
> terminal shell:
>
> cd /Library/Frameworks
> sudo mv Tcl.framework Tcl-disabled
> sudo mv Tk.framework Tk-disabled
>
> Then try IDLE again.
>
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