[New-bugs-announce] [issue34550] UnicodeDecodeError when invoke method configure() of Menu instance

[Tao Chen]

New submission from Tao Chen <sbellct at 163.com>:

[Brief Description]
Python 3.7.0 IDLE. After create one Menu instance, and invoke it's config() or configure() method without any parameter, python print UnicodeDecodeError.


[Walk around]
menubar = Menu(root)
menubar.config(font=('Arial'))



[LOG]
Python 3.7.0 (v3.7.0:1bf9cc5093, Jun 27 2018, 04:59:51) [MSC v.1914 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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>>> from tkinter import *
>>> root = Tk()
>>> menubar = Menu(root)
>>> menubar.config()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#3>", line 1, in <module>
    menubar.config()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc8 in position 2: invalid continuation byte


>>> menubar.cget('font')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#15>", line 1, in <module>
    menubar.cget('font')
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc8 in position 2: invalid continuation byte

>>> platform.uname()
uname_result(system='Windows', node='xxx', release='7', version='6.1.7601', machine='AMD64', processor='Intel64 Family 6 Model 78 Stepping 3, GenuineIntel')

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components: Tkinter
messages: 324389
nosy: sbellct
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: UnicodeDecodeError when invoke method configure() of Menu instance
type: resource usage
versions: Python 3.7

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