New submission from Ned Deily: Using current IDLE in 2.7 tip (as in 2.7.6rc1), selecting a file to open in the IDLE menu or on the command line cause IDLE to either (depending on the platform and invocation) crash or hang due to an uncaught exception in idlelib/IOBinding.py:
/usr/local/bin/idle2.7 a.py Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1470, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/IOBinding.py", line 222, in open flist.open(filename) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/FileList.py", line 36, in open return self.EditorWindow(self, filename, key) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 131, in __init__ EditorWindow.__init__(self, *args) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/EditorWindow.py", line 323, in __init__ io.loadfile(filename) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/IOBinding.py", line 258, in loadfile chars = self.decode(chars) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/IOBinding.py", line 296, in decode enc = coding_spec(chars) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/idlelib/IOBinding.py", line 129, in coding_spec for line in lst: NameError: global name 'lst' is not defined The culprit is 3d46ef0c62c5 for Issue18873 which did a faulty backport of a change from the 3.x branches. ---------- assignee: serhiy.storchaka components: IDLE messages: 201586 nosy: benjamin.peterson, ned.deily, serhiy.storchaka priority: release blocker severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Opening a file in IDLE causes a crash or hang versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19426> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com