[issue5232] Setting font from preference dialog in IDLE on OS X broken

[Mitchell Model]

New submission from Mitchell Model <mlm at acm.org>:

When setting the font in IDLE's Preferences dialog on OSX, having 
started IDLE from the command line, the font is changed and the 
following is printed:

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.0/lib/python3.0/tkinter
/__init__.py", line 1399, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.0/lib/python3.0/idlelib
/configDialog.py", line 1125, in Ok
    self.Apply()
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.0/lib/python3.0/idlelib
/configDialog.py", line 1129, in Apply
    self.DeactivateCurrentConfig()
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.0/lib/python3.0/idlelib
/configDialog.py", line 1107, in DeactivateCurrentConfig
    winInstances = self.parent.instance_dict.keys()
  File 
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.0/lib/python3.0/tkinter
/__init__.py", line 1708, in __getattr__
    return getattr(self.tk, attr)
AttributeError: 'tkapp' object has no attribute 'instance_dict'

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components: IDLE
messages: 81827
nosy: MLModel
severity: normal
status: open
title: Setting font from preference dialog in IDLE on OS X broken
versions: Python 3.0, Python 3.1

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