idle BUG

[Robin Becker]

I think this must be a bug in Tkinter, but since no one ever responds I
thought I'd whine about idle instead. 

I run python2.1 Win95 OSR2.
Start a command window
run python idle.py

Kill the idle window using the mouse (click on the x). In some unknown
percentage of cases (like 50%) the process hangs and doesn't return to
the command window.

The hung process is very destructive and makes it impossible to reboot
the machine properly. This bug has been present for a very long time and
I'm fed up with it.

It's clearly some kind of race between python and Tcl/Tk. The problem
doesn't occur on win2k so I guess there's some difference between the
run times that helps.

similar apps in pure tcl/tk don't show this behaviour although it's
possible to make them do stupid things.
-- 
Robin Becker