[issue44828] tkinter.filedialog linked with Tk 8.6.11 crashes on macOS 12 Monterey, breaking IDLE saves

[Zack McCauley]

Zack McCauley <wpgraphix at gmail.com> added the comment:

If you use the older methods to detect OSVersion, Monterey will also
identify as 10.16. iirc there’s an environment variable to enable or
disable that.

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 7:54 AM Marc Culler <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> Marc Culler <marc.culler at gmail.com> added the comment:
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> According to wikipedia, it was only the Big Sur beta that identified
> itself as 10.16.  (And I observed this with the beta).  But the release
> and, I think, the later Big Sur betas stopped doing that.
>
> But I did eventually find a page showing a tweet that "documents" this
> behavior:
>
> https://eclecticlight.co/2020/07/21/big-sur-is-both-10-16-and-11-0-its-official/
>
> I guess obscure tweets have replaced documentation.
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