[Idle-dev] module won't run in IDLE: puzzling traceback

[Brian van den Broek]

Kurt B. Kaiser said unto the world upon 06/06/2005 14:33:
> Brian van den Broek <bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca> writes:
> 
> 
>>I'm a hobbyist who posts mostly to Tutor; I'm doing my level best to 
>>handle this "right". Apologies for any mis-steps. I have googled the 
>>web and searched the gmane archive of this list for the terms 
>>asyncqueue and putmessage but did not come up with anything that I 
>>recognized as relevant.
> 
> 
> Thanks!  You're definitely on the right track!
> 
> 
>>The problem:
>>
>>I have a module which, when I run it with IDLE 1.1.1 produces the 
>>following traceback:
>>
>>IDLE 1.1.1
>> >>> ================================ RESTART 
>>================================
>> >>>
>>Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\idlelib\rpc.py", line 233, in asyncqueue
>>     self.putmessage((seq, request))
>>   File "C:\PYTHON24\lib\idlelib\rpc.py", line 333, in putmessage
>>     raise IOError
>>IOError
> 

<snip further details of my problem and several suggestions from Kurt>


Hi Kurt and all,

thanks for the reply, Kurt, and apologies for the delay in my response.

The day before you posted, my laptop (and sole computer) up and died. 
So, I was off-line until I got the replacement yesterday. Cursory 
efforts to reproduce the problem on the new WinXP box have not 
succeeded (though, in context, failure is success ;-)

My thesis is due at the end of August, and the recent lack of a 
computer through a bit of a wrench in my schedule! So, at the moment, 
the cursory attempts will have to do. When I've time to breath, I will 
put a sustained effort into an attempt to reproduce the problem, and 
post back if I can do so.

Thanks again for your efforts. Best,

Brian vdB