[Idle-dev] idle eats code

[Guido van Rossum]

> Hi,
> I hope this is not too off topic or covered before. The phenomenon is this: while 
> editing a python file under windows 2000, IDLE (0.8, python 2.1) suddenly 
> crashes vanishing completely (closing the python interpreter as well). The evil 
> thing is that the .py file having been worked on is exactly 0 byte after the crash, 
> although having been saved before, there is nothing left. Unfortunately (or rather 
> fortunately) this happens rarely, so that I did not manage to reproduce the bug, 
> however, it seems severe enough and I have the impression that it might be 
> connected with either using the clipboard under Windows or with a bug in 
> Tkinter (probably a Tcl-bug) with the internal utf8-representation of the text-
> widget. (I have reported this; cf. request ID #418173 )
> regards
> Christoph 

Are you trying to attempt (maybe accidentally) to paste a non-ASCII
character?  I've seen problems with saving files containing a
non-ASCII character.

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