[issue12988] Tkinter File Dialog crashes on Win7 when saving to Documents Library

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: As near as I can tell, the tcl/tk distributed with Windows is not upgraded in bugfix releases. I presume it is a matter of testing and stability and not introducing any new features in the new tcl/tk. In any case, on Windows, this is fixed in 3.3 (and hopefull

[issue12988] Tkinter File Dialog crashes on Win7 when saving to Documents Library

Ali Rahmjoo added the comment: I have exactly the same problem mentioned by Brian Gernhardt for 32-bit Python 3.2.3 on Win7. -- nosy: +alirahmjoo ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue12988] Tkinter File Dialog crashes on Win7 when saving to Documents Library

Roger Serwy added the comment: Re-opened. -- resolution: out of date -> status: closed -> open ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue12988] Tkinter File Dialog crashes on Win7 when saving to Documents Library

Roger Serwy added the comment: I installed 3.3.0a4 (64-bit) on Win 7 and the issue did not occur when using asksaveasfile. I repeated with 32-bit 3.3.0a4 without any problems. How can we confirm that 3.2 will receive the Tcl/Tk upgrade? (64-bit 2.7.3 does not have this bug.) -- resol

[issue12988] Tkinter File Dialog crashes on Win7 when saving to Documents Library

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I closed #14996 as a duplicate of this. The OP there claimed that behavior changed between 3.2.1 and 3.2.3 and that she had same problem with 32 bit installation. It is hard to know the exact circumstances of the problem until we find its cause. Looking furt

[issue12988] Tkinter File Dialog crashes on Win7 when saving to Documents Library

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I re-verified this on win7-64 with 3.3.0a3 >From Idle, Idle remains after clicking away the error box. >From Command Prompt, CP disappears after clicking away box. Problem is not specific to Donwloads. Other Libraries fail also. Desktop and other normal places

[issue12988] Tkinter File Dialog crashes on Win7 when saving to Documents Library

Roger Serwy added the comment: On Win7, I can replicate the problem with 64-bit Python 3.2.3. However, it does not occur for 32-bit Python 3.2.2. This problem is not due to IDLE. There is a problem with the 64-bit version of tkinter's file dialog. From a 64-bit python environment, bring up th