Tkinter/IDLE crash
alex at magenta.com
alex at magenta.com
Fri Dec 10 08:41:38 EST 1999
In article <82pkpk$3o0$1 at mirv.unsw.edu.au>,
simon at george.maths.unsw.edu.au (Simon Evans) wrote:
> I was making my first foray into Tkinter last night (using Py 1.5.2
> and IDLE with Win 95).
[snip]
> the "Quit" button, and *everything* quits. The window, the IDLE
> session, everything! Goodbye python, goodbye IDLE, hello desktop.
The release notes for the current PythonWin mention this, and
I get identical problems (at home, on Win98 -- not here at
work, on Win/NT, where things appear stable). There is
something badly broken with 1.5.2 on both Win95 and Win98,
it seems -- something that affects IDLE, PythonWin, _and_
the command line interpreter too, to different degrees. I
get a crash on _exit_ from the whatever-environment by far
most of the time -- always, if I've been using Tkinter in
the session; and, not often, crashes "in the middle", such
as you describe.
I consider this to be the biggest current "environment"
problem with Python -- that the latest implementation is
SO fragile on the (alas) single most widespread platform,
that it cannot really be used to develop for it:-(.
I just joined the PSA, so, among other benefits, I'll get
access to the current betas of PythonWin -- and, if the
bugs persist there, I guess I'll try to spend some of my
abundant free time to understand the crashes better (e.g.,
by throwing NuMega's DevPartner at the code -- sometimes
it does help in finding not-quite-kosher system calls, &c).
Alex
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