Ned Deily added the comment:
Thanks for everyone's help on this. To summarize, opening IDLE's Preferences
menu when Python is dynamically linking to ActiveTcl 8.5.12.1 (at this writing,
the most recent version) causes Tk to crash. The committed patches here avoid
the crash by changing Tk calls from IDLE. These fixes will be released in the
next set of maintenance releases: 2.7.4, 3.2.4, 3.3.1, and in 3.4.0. Until
they are installed, another workaround is to revert to an earlier version of
ActiveTcl; 8.5.11.1 is recommended:
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActiveTcl/releases/8.5.11.1/
As always, http://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ will be updated with
current recommendations.
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resolution: -> fixed
stage: patch review -> committed/rejected
status: open -> closed
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