[Python-bugs-list] Re: Reproducible crash of Mac IDE (PR#172)

[just@letterror.com]

At 6:28 PM -0500 12-01-2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Full_Name: Bruce Sherwood
>> Version: 1.5.2c1
>> OS: Mac 8.1
>> Submission from: hejmo.rem.cmu.edu (128.2.83.199)
>>
>>
>> I'm writing tiny programs invoking Tkinter, to learn how to use it. If I
>>open
>my
>> script from the Mac IDE and click "Run all" in the script title bar, the
>script
>> runs okay, but when I try to quit running, the entire IDE locks up. I
>>have to
>do
>> an unpleasant Mac "Force quit" to get out. This is completely reproducible
>with
>> tiny programs containing "from Tkinter import *".
>>
>> I've had to resort to the awkward strategem of saving the script, then
>dragging
>> the script file onto the Python interpreter. In that case I can quit
>normally.
>> It means that I'm only using the IDE as a (structured) text editor.
>>
>> I don't have the quit problem in Mac IDE with scripts that don't invoke
>> Tkinter.

I'm sorry to inform you that the Mac Python IDE is not compatible with
Tkinter. At all. Conflicting event loops and all.

Sorry!

Just