[New-bugs-announce] [issue3573] IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))

[Guilherme Polo]

New submission from Guilherme Polo <ggpolo at gmail.com>:

Passing a single directory as a command line argument can make IDLE hang.
To achieve this the user needs to configure IDLE to open an editor
window by default.

The attached patch discards filenames that failed to load, so in the end
it may open an empty editor window instead of hanging.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: fix_idle_startup_hang.diff
keywords: patch
messages: 71249
nosy: gpolo
severity: normal
status: open
title: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s))
versions: Python 2.6, Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11129/fix_idle_startup_hang.diff

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