Crashing IDLE

[Skip Montanaro]

    David> I would consider that a bug - "pass" should be checking for
    David> ctrl-c and other events imo. It sure strikes me as a point for
    David> relinquishing control.

It will relinquish control to another thread and sense KeyboardInterrupt.
If your app is not threaded though, Tk will never get control so it can
process its event queue.  That's what fills up.

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