Tkinter/IDLE crash

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On 13 Dec 1999 01:24:36 GMT, simon at george.maths.unsw.edu.au (Simon Evans) wrote:
> : In article <82pkpk$3o0$1 at mirv.unsw.edu.au>, I wrote:
> 
> : >    I was making my first foray into Tkinter last night (using Py 1.5.2
> : >  and IDLE with Win 95).
> :     [snip]
> : >  the "Quit" button, and *everything* quits. The window, the IDLE
> : >  session, everything! Goodbye python, goodbye IDLE, hello desktop.
> 
>   Alex replied:
> 
> : There is
> : something badly broken with 1.5.2 on both Win95 and Win98,
> : it seems -- something that affects IDLE, PythonWin, _and_
> : the command line interpreter too, to different degrees. 
> 
>     It looks as though this is bigger than I thought. There
>  must be lots of others out there having the same problem, surely?
>  Or am I the only one who types in the examples out of tutorials?
>  I'm fairly new to Python, but I'm pretty sure that IDLE and Tkinter
>  are both pretty standard.
> 
>     If 1.5.2/Tkinter/IDLE can't manage the second-simplest
>  example in the Tkinter tutorial on a popular platform like win9x,
>  how on earth has anyone managed to use it for anything worthwhile?
>  I can't be the first to make a big noise about this.
> 
> : I consider this to be the biggest current "environment"
> : problem with Python -- that the latest implementation is
> : SO fragile on the (alas) single most widespread platform,
> : that it cannot really be used to develop for it:-(.
> 
>     Ok, now I'm really getting worried...I like Python, I've
>  got a to-do list of applications, and I need my Tkinter,
>  blast it! 
> 
>     So, gurus, what's my next step?
> 
> =================================================================
> Simon Evans (simon_at_maths.unsw.edu.au)
> Physical Oceanography Group
> School of Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Australia.
> =================================================================

I'm also having the same problems with tkinter and IDLE.  Until they're fixed, can anyone 
recommend a way to catch the program before it takes the whole computer down.  Rebooting 
every ten minutes gets pretty tiresome.  I've tried encapsulating the whole program with 
an exception and it might help a little, but it's hard to tell.


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