Issue 32955: IDLE crashes when trying to save a file (original) (raw)

Created on 2018-02-26 14:18 by zaphod424, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (5)
msg312926 - (view)	Author: (zaphod424)	Date: 2018-02-26 14:18
when I click the save as button or use the keyboard shortcut, the save window appears but if I click the drop down to choose the save location, it crashes, using a Mac
msg312937 - (view)	Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) *	Date: 2018-02-26 16:30
Open IDLE, click Help => About IDLE, look at the tcl/tk version, and report it here. If it is not 8.5.18, follow instructions on https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ to update. Ask on python-list if you need help doing so.
msg313161 - (view)	Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) *	Date: 2018-03-02 20:09
What do you mean by crash? An exception from Python (which is not a crash)? or something from MacOS?
msg401312 - (view)	Author: Irit Katriel (iritkatriel) *	Date: 2021-09-07 17:11
Closing as there isn't enough information and there has been no response from the OP to the follow-up questions.
msg401326 - (view)	Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) *	Date: 2021-09-07 18:55
Thank you Irit. For any users who stumble on this issue: Drop down clicks in the dialog are handled by tk. Hence, this was not an IDLE issue, unlikely to be a tkinter issue, and most likely a bad tcl/tk version issue. Hence my first post. My response and the web are out of date. We have fixed the version issue by including in each installer what seems to be the best available tcl/tk build.