[issue11896] Save on Close fails in IDLE, from Linux system

New submission from marcus harris : Under some circumstances, which I will detail later down the note, if I click File --> Close without explicitly saving, and without running the module with Run --> Run Module , then the last changes I made to the file do not get saved. The save dialogue pop-

[issue11896] Save on Close fails in IDLE, from Linux system

marcus harris added the comment: Terry Reedy was not able to reproduce this snag on an XP system; however, suggested there might be a real save on close error on the linux side... also requested to be place on the nosy list... -- ___ Python tracker

[issue11896] Save on Close fails in IDLE, from Linux system

Ned Deily added the comment: Thanks for the precise test case. I am able to reproduce the failure on OS X using the MacPorts X11-Tk Tkinter but not with the standard OS X AquaTk Tkinter. -- assignee: -> ned.deily nosy: +ned.deily stage: -> needs patch __

[issue11896] Save on Close fails in IDLE, from Linux system

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset da7a120c0478 by Kurt B. Kaiser in branch '3.1': Issue #11896: Save on Close failed despite selecting "Yes" in dialog. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/da7a120c0478 New changeset 87196154dec8 by Kurt B. Kaiser in branch 'default': Merge from 3.2 htt

[issue11896] Save on Close fails in IDLE, from Linux system

Kurt B. Kaiser added the comment: tkinter.messagebox.Message sending rather than str, so comparison with str failed. Always for "cancel", (almost?) always for "yes". Use the helper functions in tkinter.messagebox, which correct for that. This hasn't worked for a long time, I'm surprised it j

[issue11896] Save on Close fails in IDLE, from Linux system

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset ac14158462cf by Kurt B. Kaiser in branch '2.7': Issue #11896: Save on Close failed despite selecting "Yes" in dialog. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ac14158462cf -- ___ Python tracker