Tkinter, IDLE keeps crashing
Ned Deily
nad at acm.org
Sun Feb 17 17:02:25 EST 2013
In article <9d367487-4846-4caa-85e7-08ac570b4a6c at googlegroups.com>,
Ash Courchene <ash.courchene at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I've actually had this problem for awhile, and I cant seem to get anything
> to work. I've followed all the steps & procedures that my google searches
> have provide me, but I can't seem to get the Tkinter module or the Python
> IDLE IDE to work.
>
> For instance, if I click IDLE on my mac, it'll open up for a quick sec &
> produce an error.
> Or if I go into the Python interpreter, I import Tkinter, call Tk()
> Then it says: CGColor 1 components Abort Trap: 6, then get an error. I'll
> post this crash report below.
>
> My system is a Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
> I'm running 2.7.3 Python
> I've installed the recommended version of ActiveState TCL/TK
Most likely you have a non-default preference set (color or font) that
is causing the problem. IDLE and especially Tk on OS X has been known
to be vulnerable to this. To try working around it, open a terminal
session and rename the IDLE settings directory:
cd $HOME
mv .idlerc idlerc-disabled
Then try relaunching IDLE. If that solves it, it would be nice if you
could open an issue on the Python bug tracker (http://bugs.python.org)
and attach to it the contents of the config files in the old
idlerc-disabled directory. There has been some fixes to IDLE since
2.7.3 to make it more resilient; those will be in 2.7.4 which should be
coming along in the near future.
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Ned Deily,
nad at acm.org
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