On May 30, 2020, at 04:04, Ronald Oussoren via Pythonmac-SIG <pythonmac-sig@python.org> wrote: >> On 29 May 2020, at 12:44, Don Bowers <donald.bow...@zen.co.uk> wrote: >> >> iMac (2009) OS X El Capitan v 10.11.6 >> >> Sirs, A few days ago I downloaded and installed the latest release of python >> 3.8.3. >> >> All seemed normal at first until I tried to Cut & Paste parts of a script I >> was working on in the IDLE >> environment. The following are screen shots that are generally self >> explanatory; >> <Screen Shot 2020-05-27 at 17.58.53.png> >> As can be seen, the cut and copy are greyed out and inoperative and I don’t >> remember the "set" and "clear" Breakpoints, at the bottom. It is as if >> nothing had been selected. >> Such a situation makes the editor practically unusable so I quit out of the >> IDLE and Python. > I get the same behaviour on macOS 10.15.5, both with 3.8.3 and the 3.9 beta. > 3.7.4 works correctly. This happens both in the interactive shell and in > edit windows. I’d guess this is a problem with the bundled copy of Tk. > > Could you file a bug on bugs.python.org?
It looks like this problem was caused by a change a couple of months ago for Issue39885: https://bugs.python.org/issue39885 which had the side effect of disabling the cut and copy context menu items. A fix for that regression was just merged yesterday so the problem should be resolved in the next set of releases, 3.8.4 and 3.7.8, which should both be available by mid-July. -- Ned Deily n...@python.org -- [] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
