[issue8793] IDLE crashes on opening invalid file

Ned Deily added the comment: Thank for the suggestion! BTW, a similar change had been recently made to Python 3 for Issue9871 for invalid byte strings. -- assignee: -> ned.deily nosy: +ned.deily resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed versions: -Py

[issue8793] IDLE crashes on opening invalid file

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset e277fe8380e0 by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash in 2.7 when given strings with http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e277fe8380e0 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue8793] IDLE crashes on opening invalid file

Roger Serwy added the comment: With IDLE 3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04, this is not a problem. An error box pops up: SyntaxError (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-3: truncated \xXX escape With IDLE 2.7.1 on Ubuntu 11.04, the console gives the error described by Ama

[issue8793] IDLE crashes on opening invalid file

Amaury Forgeot d'Arc added the comment: When running IDLE in a console, I get the error: Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\prod\python\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1410, in __call__ return self.func(*args) File "c:\prod\python\lib\idlelib\MultiCal

[issue8793] IDLE crashes on opening invalid file

New submission from royf : 1. Create a file containing this line: '\xdk' 2. Open the file for editing in IDLE 2.6.4. Banner: Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 3. Run Module (F5) -> Bug#1: no error is shown 4. Run Module 7 more times (exactly