IDLE Crash when running/saving Module

[DavidAnon]

BPO	10690
Nosy	@ned-deily, @bitdancer
Superseder	bpo-10537: OS X IDLE 2.7 from 64-bit installer hangs when you paste something.
Files	Python_2010-12-12-214329_Darwin.txt: Python Crash log

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assignee = 'https://github.com/ned-deily'
closed_at = <Date 2011-03-09.05:40:59.073>
created_at = <Date 2010-12-13.02:53:05.359>
labels = ['expert-IDLE', 'type-crash']
title = 'IDLE Crash when running/saving Module'
updated_at = <Date 2011-03-09.05:40:59.071>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/DavidAnon'

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components = ['IDLE']
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creator = 'David_Anon'
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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
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status = 'closed'
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type = 'crash'
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versions = ['Python 2.7']

[DavidAnon]

Hello,

Python version 2.7.1 x64
Mac OS X 10.6.5 x86_64
Tk/Tcl version 8.5/4

Python will crash when saving/running/checking a module, i tried googling for a few hours to come up to NOTHING for a solution. Hopefully we can both get this fixed. Thank you.

Attached is a Python crash log.

[bitdancer]

Ned, did you mean bpo-9763?

[ned-deily]

[updated to refer to correct issue - thanks!]

Without more specific details on exactly how to reproduce the problem, I assume you are seeing something like the problem reported in bpo-9763. There are several reported problems with IDLEs that are linked with the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5 in OS X 10.6. That includes the current python.org 2.7.1 64-bit installer. The simplest workaround at the moment is to use the other, 32-bit-only 2.7.1 installer for OS X. It uses the Apple Tcl/Tk 8.4 or ActiveTcl 8.4, if present, neither of which exhibits these kinds of problems.

[ned-deily]

Now that ActiveState has released a version of Tcl/Tk 8.5 (8.5.9.2) for Mac OS X that is also an Aqua Cocoa Tk (like the Apple-supplied Tk 8.5.7 in 10.6) and supports 64-bit, versions of Python linked with the new ActiveTcl 8.5.9 do not display the problem reported here as well as a number of other problems reported elsewhere. Unfortunately, as released, the 64-bit/32-bit python.org Python 2.7.1 for 10.6 links only to the Apple-supplied Tcl/Tk 8.5. Until the next release of Python 2.7 (2.7.2), the best workaround without rebuilding remains to use the 32-bit-only installer for 2.7.1.

There is now a webpage that summarizes the somewhat confusing state of affairs with regard to Tcl/Tk support with Python on Mac OS X:

http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/