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

[Ned Deily]

In article <50734448.30202 at codebykevin.com>,
 Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevin.com> wrote:
> On 10/8/12 4:22 PM, Ned Deily wrote:
> > It has not been fixed yet.
> 
> Is this statement based on a fresh checkout of the core-8-5-branch from 
> http://core.tcl.tk/tk? Because my build of 8.5 dates from about a week 
> ago, and the preferences menu issue is fixed.
> 
> What I said before holds: the fix is now in the source tree, but 
> ActiveState has not yet released an updated build of ActiveTcl to 
> include the fix. The OP can certainly download and build the Tcl/Tk 
> sources himself to get the fix; I agree that an alternative workaround 
> would be to revert to an older build of ActiveTcl, assuming it's still 
> available.

As far as I can tell, the problem is not fixed in the source tree.  The 
problem is trivial to reproduce with Python and IDLE.  Try it with your 
own build of Tk 8.5 installed in /Library/Frameworks and with any of the 
current python.org 64-bit/32-bit installers 
(http://www.python.org/download/) or with the ActiveState Python 
installers.  Launch the appropriate IDLE.app and select Preferences from 
the IDLE menu.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org