[python-win32] Pythonwin IDE hangs on tool menu edits -and workaround

[Peter Fraser]

Hello Pywinonauts

Pythonwin  (pywin32 build218 python 2.7.6) is hanging after I edit the 
tools menu (or rather; whenever I go to the "Tools menu" tab of 
"PythonWin Options" and hit OK  -I don't need to actually edit anything 
to provoke the problem)

It seems that ToolMenuPropPage.OnOK gets into an endless loop   -because 
it expects self.listControl.GetItemText(itemLook, 0) to raise 
win32ui.error when it runs out of items  *but* GetItemText is happily 
returning zero length strings in this case.

As a workaround I have added...

if not self.listControl.GetItemText(itemLook, 0):break

..to toolmenu.py above the line...

items.append( ( self.listControl.GetItemText(itemLook, 0), 
self.listControl.GetItemText(itemLook, 1) ) )


An older PythonWin (pywin32 build214 python 2.6.6) does not have the 
problem  -but I wonder if the difference that makes a difference is 
particular to my machine. I tried deleting everything under under 
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Python 2.7\Python for Win32\Tools Menu"  but 
it made no difference.

Is it just my machine (surely everyone else in the world can edit the 
tools menu ok)?

Am I missing something about GetItemText perhaps?

any wisdom appreciated

pf