[issue6424] Idle3 crashing when using completion

Thomas Courbon report at bugs.python.org
Sun Jul 5 18:24:53 CEST 2009


New submission from Thomas Courbon <harthie at yahoo.fr>:

Configuration : fedora 11, python3.1 manually compiled and installed
along python 2.6 (provided by the distribution).

Reproducibility : seems to be happening any time

Description : When you try to use the auto-completion (ctrl + space) on
anything (tested with module and custom class), the idle crash with the
message :
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/idle3", line 5, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.1/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1420, in main
    root.mainloop()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.1/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1009, in
mainloop
    self.tk.mainloop(n)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1:
illegal encoding

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components: IDLE
messages: 90159
nosy: tcourbon
severity: normal
status: open
title: Idle3 crashing when using completion
type: crash
versions: Python 3.1

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