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Author ned.deily
Recipients David.Pietz, asvetlov, christian.heimes, ned.deily, pedrommeirelles, python-dev, r.david.murray, rhettinger, roger.serwy, wordtech
Date 2012-10-22.22:37:20
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Thanks for everyone's help on this.  To summarize, opening IDLE's Preferences menu when Python is dynamically linking to ActiveTcl 8.5.12.1 (at this writing, the most recent version) causes Tk to crash.  The committed patches here avoid the crash by changing Tk calls from IDLE.  These fixes will be released in the next set of maintenance releases: 2.7.4, 3.2.4, 3.3.1, and in 3.4.0.  Until they are installed, another workaround is to revert to an earlier version of ActiveTcl; 8.5.11.1 is recommended:

    http://downloads.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/releases/8.5.11.1/

As always, http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ will be updated with current recommendations.
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2012-10-22 22:37:21ned.deilysetrecipients: + ned.deily, rhettinger, wordtech, christian.heimes, roger.serwy, r.david.murray, asvetlov, python-dev, David.Pietz, pedrommeirelles
2012-10-22 22:37:21ned.deilysetmessageid: <1350945441.04.0.972557440088.issue15853@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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