[ python-Bugs-961805 ] Text.edit_modified() fails

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Bugs item #961805, was opened at 2004-05-27 21:59
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Category: Tkinter
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Eric P. (ericpett)
Assigned to: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Summary: Text.edit_modified() fails

Initial Comment:
Text.edit_modified() fails because it calls _getints() on the 
result of the underlying tk.call().  The tk.call() is returning a 
boolean, not a string, and the _getints() fails.

Here's the last part of an example traceback:

File "/usr/local/src/staff/pett/chimera/devel/Ilabel/
__init__.py", line 53, in textCB
    if not text.edit_modified():
  File "/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/IRIX-X11/foreign/
Python-2.3.2/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2831, in 
edit_modified
    return self.edit("modified", arg)
  File "/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/IRIX-X11/foreign/
Python-2.3.2/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2819, in 
edit
    return self._getints(
  File "/usr/local/src/staff/chimera-build/IRIX-X11/foreign/
Python-2.3.2/lib/python2.3/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 972, in 
_getints
    return tuple(map(getint, self.tk.splitlist(string)))
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, bool 
found

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>Comment By: Matthias Klose (doko)
Date: 2007-02-14 21:18

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followup from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/84720



As a workaround you can get the status by calling:

print root.tk.call('eval','%s edit modified'%self.textwidget)

where self.textwidget is the variable where the text widget was assigned
to.


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Comment By: Eric P. (ericpett)
Date: 2004-05-27 22:52

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I should mention that it's the argless form of edit_modified() that
fails (querying the flag state) -- setting the flag works.

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