[New-bugs-announce] [issue16582] Tkinter calls SystemExit with string

[Abraham Karplus]

New submission from Abraham Karplus:

Exiting a Tkinter application normally results in printing '0' and exiting with error code 1. This is a result of Tkinter's _exit function, whose default argument for code is the string '0'. It then calls SystemExit with the code argument. However, according to the SystemExit documentation "if [the argument] has another type (such as a string), the object’s value is printed and the exit status is one". A simple fix for this would be to change the Tkinter _exit function to convert code to an int before passing it to SystemExit.

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components: Tkinter
messages: 176696
nosy: Abraham Karplus
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Tkinter calls SystemExit with string
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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