Idle crashes when opening file

[Schiefna]

BPO	19484
Nosy	@ned-deily

^{Note: these values reflect the state of the issue at the time it was migrated and might not reflect the current state.}

Show more details

GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2013-11-03.18:50:51.728>
created_at = <Date 2013-11-03.14:52:53.964>
labels = ['expert-IDLE', 'type-crash']
title = 'Idle crashes when opening file'
updated_at = <Date 2013-11-04.03:23:18.616>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/Schiefna'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2013-11-04.03:23:18.616>
actor = 'Jerry.Barrington'
assignee = 'none'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2013-11-03.18:50:51.728>
closer = 'ned.deily'
components = ['IDLE']
creation = <Date 2013-11-03.14:52:53.964>
creator = 'Schiefna'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 19484
keywords = []
message_count = 7.0
messages = ['202027', '202051', '202055', '202056', '202057', '202062', '202078']
nosy_count = 3.0
nosy_names = ['ned.deily', 'Schiefna', 'Jerry.Barrington']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'out of date'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'crash'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue19484'
versions = ['Python 2.7']

[Schiefna]

Whenever I try opening a .py file, Idle crashes.
Mac OS X, 10.6.8

[ned-deily]

OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard shipped with a new version of Tk 8.5 that is mostly unusable with IDLE and other Tkinter applications. If you are using the Apple-supplied system Python on OS X, you should install a new version of Python that allows use of a different version of Tk. If you are using a python.org installer, install a third-party version of Tk or the latest installers which include their own built-in copies of Tk. See http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ for detailed information. If this does not solve your problem, please reopen this issue and supply more information.

[JerryBarrington]

I installed python-2.7.6rc1-macosx10.6_rev1.dmg, which says it has it's own Tk builtin, on OSX 10.6.8. Idle crashes when I double-click a *.py file. If I try to open a file from within Idle, a blank window opens that I can't close.

[ned-deily]

Double-clicking on a .py may not be opening the file with the right version of IDLE. OS X maintains the associations between file types, based on file characteristics like the extension (e.g. ".py"), and applications. To select exactly which application to open a file, rather than double-clicking on it, click on it once to select it then use control-click to being up a context menu and use "Open With" to select the 2.7.6 version of IDLE. You can also use the Finder's Get Info command to change application associations for a particular file or for all files of a particular type. The details of all of this vary slightly depending on OS X release.

[ned-deily]

My apologies! What I just wrote is accurate but not the problem you are seeing. I forgot that there is a problem with IDLE's Open command that was discovered after the release of 2.7.6rc1. See bpo-19426 It will be fixed in the final release of 2.7.6 which should be available sometime this week.

[ned-deily]

P.S. If you feel comfortable with using the command line, you *could* install the fix for bpo-19426 yourself into 2.7.6rc1 if you can't wait for the final release. For the OS X python.org installers, something like this should work from a user login with administrator privileges (sudo may ask for your password):

cd ~/Downloads
curl -O http://hg.python.org/cpython/raw-file/7fde94ad5df4/Lib/idlelib/IOBinding.py
cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7
cd ./lib/python2.7/idlelib
diff ~/Downloads/IOBinding.py ./IOBinding.py
sudo cp -p ./IOBinding.py ./IOBinding.py.ORIGINAL
sudo cp ~/Downloads/IOBinding.py ./IOBinding.py
sudo rm -f ./IOBinding.pyc ./IOBinding.pyo
sudo chmod 664 ./IOBinding.py

The output from the diff command should look like this:

$ diff ~/Downloads/IOBinding.py IOBinding.py
128c128
<     lst = str.split("\n", 2)[:2]

---

str = str.split("\\n", 2)[:2]

[JerryBarrington]

Thank you, that fix worked perfectly.

Only one weird thing. I have IDLE's preferences set to "At Startup: Open Shell Window". If I double click a *.py file while IDLE isn't running, the shell pops up, then the py file pops up, then the shell goes away. Not a problem, but kind of weird behavior.