Terry J. Reedy added the comment: More thoughts: The reason for explicit __del__ is to release memory resources connected to other objects or structures at the behest of the Python instance being deleted. If __del__ were only called at shutdown, it would not be needed, as all memory is released anyway and we could delete __del__. If __del__ is called before shutdown (as would happen if the class were unittested) then exceptions would indicate a bug and should not be ignored. From this viewpoint, not only should the try: except: be within the loop, but the break should be conditioned on the exception message.
if exc.args[0] == 'can't invoke "bind" command: application has been destroyed': break The modern solution to this dilemma is to use .close instead of .__del__ and either explicitly call .close or have it called in the .__exit__ method of a context manager. For Idle classes, this would not be a problem for future test code, but it would be much trickier finding all places in current code where instances of a class with a .__del__ method get deleted. So a compromise patch with conditioned break seems most practical. I tried a few more experiments: run the .py file (F5, to create a Shell window) and then close both windows. Whether the closing was shell first or editor first, the messages do not appear. Three runs with -n gave the same results. So it seems that the problem only appears when there has never been a shell window. I agree with Serhiy (his point 2) that this is disconcerting and could indicate a 3.4-specific problem with Tk, tkinter, or Idle. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20167> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
