Terry J. Reedy <[email protected]> added the comment:
Simpler test.
Open IDLE Shell (only) from icon or (preferably) terminal.
>>> input()
# Close IDLE without giving input with Window (X), File => exit, or
Control/Command-Q.
Click OK in "Your program is still running" box (from PyShell)
On Windows, IDLE closes apparently cleanly, but Task Manager shows that (at
least usually) the IDLE process moves from Apps to Background processes, with
label 'Python x.y.z Shell', where it remains as an inaccessible 20 mb zombie
until [End Task]ed. This is not normal.
On macOS Mohave, the Shell window and IDLE part of the top menubar disappear,
but the Apple part remains with the apple and program name entry ("IDLE" or
"Python" depending on whether started from icon or Terminal). I presume this
is the equivalent of Python becoming a background process, except that Apple
keeps a visible link to it. If I start IDLE in Terminal with trailing &, there
are initially two processes, and the first remains along with the Apple menu.
Under the IDLE/Python menu item, About and Preferences still bring up the
corresponding dialogs, which worked as far as I tested. This confirms that the
IDLE process is still alive. A couple of times, Quit (Command-Q) worked to
quit/crash python, and Segmentation Fault appeared in Terminal once. Later,
Quit did not work and I had to use (apple)=> Force Quit.
The trivial solution is to not close with input pending. First, either hit
Enter to let the user code run or end-of-file (default ^D) to kill it. A
corresponding patch could enforce this with a message to enter or kill before
closing.
However, I believe the issue is that PyShell.readline uses a nested tk
mainloop() as a control mechanism. Four callbacks, including eof_callback,
call quit() to exit the nested mainloop and finish readline. But the callback
has to finish and be pulled off the stack first. Three of the callbacks return
immediately after 'quit()'. However, PyShell.close continues closing before
readline continues.
When I replaced pyshell line 1016
return EditorWindow.close(self)
with
root.after(1, EditorWindow.close self)
the bug disappears. The opens a time gap between PyShell.close and
EditorWindow.close that allows readline to return '', signalling end-of-file.
This change also works on my Mac, except that I have to say 'yes' twice to
close.
Irv, please try this replacement on your system.
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title: At prompt for input(), pressing Command q kills IDLE -> IDLE: exit at
input() prompt is not complete
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