[Pythonmac-SIG] IDLE Crashes when Prefs are accessed on Python 3.3 on OSX 10.8.2

[Kevin Walzer]

On 10/10/12 7:38 PM, Ned Deily wrote:
> Look at the dump file I attached to the Tk issue.  It has a complete
> debug trace through Tk including C line numbers.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=3575664&group
> _id=12997

I've been stepping through the IDLE source code and it appears IDLE is 
crashing during the LoadConfigs() call of the config dialog. Still have 
more investigating to do, but I'm hopeful I can come up with a 
workaround that will keep things from crashing.

The stack trace that I posted earlier, in my own testing, indicates that 
the issue may be during the infernal event loop integration between Tk 
and Cocoa--there's been a lot of traffic on the Mac-Tcl list about that. 
Fortunately, while the low-level event loop issues are more or less 
unavoidable at this time, they can often be worked around at the script 
level with calls to update, after idle, etc. It may take some trial and 
error here to get that working.
If I'm successful, where should I submit a patch?

--Kevin

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