Memory exception with Tkinter root.quit

[Jane Austine]

bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote in message news:<bpc33k$9lk$0 at 216.39.172.122>...
> On 17 Nov 2003 18:08:01 -0800, janeaustine50 at hotmail.com (Jane Austine) wrote:
> 
> >>Jane Austine wrote:
> >>>>>from Tkinter import *
> >>>>>>r=Tk()
> >>>>>>b=Button(r,text='Quit',command=r.quit)
> >>>>>>b.pack()
> >>>>>>r.mainloop()
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> And when I press the "Quit" button the mainloop exits. After that,
>  if
> >>> I finish the python shell, a memory exception occurs.
> >>> 
> >>> This is Windows XP machine with Python 2.3.
> >>
> >> Not much of a help, but I've tried it here: no problems... (python
> >> 2.3.2, win xp).  Can it be a Python 2.3.0 issue that has been fixed in
> >> 2.3.1 or 2.3.2 ?
> >> 
> >> --Irmen
> >
> >I tried it with 2.3.2, but it doesn't work either.
> >
> >The crash message is:
> >
> >python.exe -- application program error
> >
> >the command from "0x77f7e22a" referenced the memory at "0x00000028".
> >The memory couldn't be "read".
> 
> Another data point:
> 
> For me it ran seemingly ok in an NT4 console window, but with idle it acted weird,
> and I couldn't capture the session screen (oops, maybe Ctl-C is no good for that there)
> Anyway, the Quit button changed to depressed look, and then was stuck visible but not responding.
> I had to kill it with task manager. Then idle printed a -----restart----- line.
> 
> Regards,
> Bengt Richter


It's very strange but it works perfect when I rename python.exe into
something else and run with it.

Has it something to do with previous versions installed? I had
Python2.3bx and 2.3c1 installed on this machine and didn't uninstall
them before I installed Python 2.3.2.

Why does this happen? How can I solve this problem?