[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Bug and fix also apply to missing Idlelib/help.txt. r87601 News entry for 3.2. Thanks Scott. -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I verified the bug by creating a copy of idlelib/help.txt, making the new help entry, testing it, deleting the copy, and retesting -- IDLE silently disappears. (A copy is necessary because IDLE checks that the file exists and gives a similar message as in the

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Changes by Terry J. Reedy : Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file20199/z6285.diff ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: webbrowser appears to be designed to return True/False if it does/or not open a browser window (regardless of site response). (I opened #10799 for a doc addition.) I believe an exception would likely indicate a bug therein. So I only wrapped the Windows start

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: I reproduce the same problem: In IDLE, add a new entry in "Options/Configure/General/Additional Help Sources", and browse to the C:\Python31\Docs\Python31*.chm file. This new entry appears in the "Help" menu. Now, if you un-install this version and insta

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Like Martin, I am puzzled as to what you actually did to cause a problem. 3.1rc2 on WinXP "Help / Python31" means what? Menu: Help / IDLE Help: brings up help box Menu: Help / Python Docs: brings up doc window same as from Start menu >>> help('Python31') no

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Scott David Daniels added the comment: Help / Python31 Instead of docs showing up, all Idle windows closed. To demonstrate for yourself, edit ~/.idlerc/config-main.cfg add a line at the end (where additional docs show up), like: 4 = Python31c1;C:/Python31/Doc/python31c1.chm (where the 4 is j

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > I uninstalled 3.1rc1, installed 3.1rc2, was exercising, and went to look > up something in the docs What does that mean? What exactly did you do to "look up something in the docs"? (I assume "was exercising" didn't cause IDLE to crash) -- _

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Scott David Daniels added the comment: I uninstalled 3.1rc1, installed 3.1rc2, was exercising, and went to look up something in the docs, and Idle disappeared. I tried again, same result. So I opened a command window, and ran Idle as: python -m idlelib.idle Tried it again and got an error

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: How exactly did you trigger the error that you are fixing? -- nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6285] Silent abort on XP help document display

New submission from Scott David Daniels : When running Idle on Windows XP, Python 3.1rc2, a failure to find an entry in the help documents causes Idle to exit (with no visible indication of why). The reason is in a failure of the call to os.startfile, and apparenly the exception causes Idle to