Dear All, This is my first post to this list.
When googling of "*python + idle + CallTip + "Exception in Tkinter* * callback"* one finds within a list of 7 results: at the top of the list (Nr. 1) a link to http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2004-August/024530.html dated August 2004 (I understand it is a bug fixed and closed.); as Nr. 3 in the list a link http://www.nabble.com/Output-to-file-gets-lost---don't-know-where-to-look-...-td21004997.html dated December 14, 2008. However, I have a situation where the symptoms are almost identical to the one described by the link Nr 3 (see output below) and that I can reproduce at will with something that looks like what is reported in the link Nr 1. The environment is: Linux OpenSuse 11.0 Python 2.5.2 Idle 1.2.2 When typing: *>>> l = len(* to query the length of an object, instead of getting a Call Tip, I get on my console the message below: *Alibaba:~ # idle Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1403, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/MultiCall.py", line 151, in handler r = l[i](event) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py", line 55, in try_open_calltip_event self.open_calltip(False) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py", line 79, in open_calltip self.calltip.showtip(arg_text, sur_paren[0], sur_paren[1]) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py", line 66, in showtip self.position_window() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py", line 35, in position_window self.parencol)) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2833, in bbox self.tk.call((self._w, 'bbox') + args)) or None File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1030, in _getints return tuple(map(getint, self.tk.splitlist(string))) ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '(117,' * and when closing the parenthesis the following messages: *Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1403, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/MultiCall.py", line 151, in handler r = l[i](event) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py", line 62, in refresh_calltip_event self.open_calltip(False) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py", line 65, in open_calltip self._remove_calltip_window() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py", line 41, in _remove_calltip_window self.calltip.hidetip() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py", line 126, in hidetip self.label.destroy() AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'destroy'* Furhtermore there is one little X window that opens up, totally empty and useless. IDLE works but each time you expect a Tip to appear you receive instead a bunch of messages to the console and you lose focus on your IDLE window, meaning you have to click on it to get the focus again and continue typing. I checked on Suse Repository 11.1 but then the available version is Python 2.6, which I don't want presently and which would require many updates to solve dependencies. I also tried to download the source of Python 2.5.4 from www.python.org . I can download the files, unpack them and run the trio of commands (./configure, make, make install) and all run smoothly. Python 2.5.4 starts and works nicely. But now IDLE begins but when you ask to run the shell, a window opens but you don't see anything: no menu, no begin, no >>> prompt, nothing ... I wonder (but I may be totally wrong here) if Suse packages Python + IDLE in a very special way ? Why would */usr/bin/python* be an executable of about 6KB within Suse and be an executable of about 3MB when generating from the source. This is my first encounter in porting a prototype under development to Linux ! Thank you for any help you may provide. All the best, Rene
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