Python/Tkinter/tk crash [long]

[Michele Simionato]

Eric Brunel <eric.brunel at pragmadev.com> wrote in message news:<bhfj7s$448$1 at news-reader5.wanadoo.fr>...
> Hi all,
> 
> I was creating a Tkinter widget in the style of the reversed tabs below Excel 
> worksheets and I stepped in a serious problem: the code I made makes python 
> crash with a seg fault, bus error or X11 BadGC error on both Solaris (2.6 and 
> 2.7) and Linux (Mandrake 8.0); it doesn't crash on Windows.

FWIW: it crashes under Red Hat 7.2+Python 2.2 and under Red Hat 7.3+Python 2.3
too.