Thank you for the advice! I checked the setting you specified and "Open Shell Window" at startup was already selected. Is there another bug this could be related to?
Thank you! On Friday, March 1, 2013 3:00:40 AM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote: > Quintessence wrote: > > > > > I've been learning Python over the past week or so and I keep running into > > > an issue where opening saved files will crash IDLE (not consistently, > > > sometimes the same files with no changes will open and sometimes not). I > > > was originally running Python 3.2.3, but I removed it and upgraded to > > > 3.3.0 hoping to resolve the issue (but to no avail). While > > > troubleshooting, someone suggested I try opening IDLE via command prompt. > > > When I do that IDLE never crashes, but It does show this error > > > (screenshot): http://i.imgur.com/1JqiRsY.png (3.2.3) > > > http://i.imgur.com/5KxE88K.png (3.3.0) > > > > Your posts are easier to deal with if you provide tracebacks as text. > > Here's what I get: > > > > Exception in Tkinter callback > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1442, in > > __call__ > > return self.func(*args) > > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/idlelib/MultiCall.py", line 174, in handler > > doafterhandler.pop()() > > File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/idlelib/MultiCall.py", line 221, in > > <lambda> > > doit = lambda: self.bindedfuncs[triplet[2]][triplet[0]].remove(func) > > ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list > > > > > Some additional info: > > > - When IDLE crashes it does not display an error, every open window simply > > > closes. - IDLE has never crashed after opening a file when I open it via > > > command prompt, even if it was previously consistently displaying that > > > behavior. - I am running Windows 7 x64 with all updates. > > > > > > Has anyone ever encountered this? What does the error mean? > > > > This looks like the following bug: > > > > http://bugs.python.org/issue8900 > > > > You might be able to work around it by selecting the > > > > "At Startup Open Shell Window" option under > > > > Options-->Configure IDLE-->General-->Startup Preferences -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
