[Idle-dev] You can make idle3.3 crash by selecting Preferences

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<CALm3UcyobSTFfgNaPUZegEWirwS0PD0NQQRKjK0ks+9QSA-JKw at mail.gmail.com>,
 Richard Fuhr <richard.fuhr at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you run idle3.3 (front end editor to python3.3) on a Mac running 10.8.2
> and select Preferences from the menu, idle will crash.
> 
> On the the preinstalled idle associated with python 2.7.2, the Preferences
> menu item is disabled.

See the current information here:

http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/

As noted, a workaround is to install a previous release of ActiveTcl, 
8.5.11.1.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org