Message 264921 - Python tracker

Message264921

Author	paulsfo
Recipients	Al.Sweigart, littleq0903, ned.deily, paulsfo, roger.serwy, suddha.sourav, taleinat, terry.reedy
Date	2016-05-05.21:08:55
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Message-id	<1462482536.0.0.772384454295.issue15786@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I'm new to IDLE. I just upgraded to Mac El Capitan from Snow Leopard, and installed Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec 5 2015, 21:12:44). I have had the IDLE window freeze so many times (when clicking on something in the autocomplete window as described by Ned Deily) that I consider IDLE unusable. I'm not familiar with Python bug practices but I would consider this a serious bug because, as a product manager would probably put it, this is going to drive away a significant percentage of new users (i.e., unexplained freezing of the product when doing something which seems natural -- clicking on the item that I want to select). BTW, looks like I'm on tcl 8.5: >>> tkinter.TclVersion 8.5 Unrelated question: which can't Mac Spotlight find tkinter.py? is it in some compressed file or something, so I can't find a standalone py file?

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I'm new to IDLE.  I just upgraded to Mac El Capitan from Snow Leopard, and installed Python 3.5.1 (v3.5.1:37a07cee5969, Dec  5 2015, 21:12:44).

I have had the IDLE window freeze so many times (when clicking on something in the autocomplete window as described by Ned Deily) that I consider IDLE unusable.  I'm not familiar with Python bug practices but I would consider this a serious bug because, as a product manager would probably put it, this is going to drive away a significant percentage of new users (i.e., unexplained freezing of the product when doing something which seems natural -- clicking on the item that I want to select).

BTW, looks like I'm on tcl 8.5:
>>> tkinter.TclVersion
8.5

Unrelated question:  which can't Mac Spotlight find tkinter.py?  is it in some compressed file or something, so I can't find a standalone py file?

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2016-05-05 21:08:55	paulsfo	set	messageid: <1462482536.0.0.772384454295.issue15786@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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