[issue25309] askopenfilename crashes on XP with "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items" on

2015-10-04 Thread alex wieder
alex wieder added the comment: wish pickfile.tcl? Sorry. Too cryptic for me. I ran the following code from the python interpreter: import tkinter as tk tk.TclVersion tk.TkVersion Both return 8.6. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.

[issue25309] askopenfilename crashes on XP with "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items" on

2015-10-04 Thread alex wieder
alex wieder added the comment: Terry, thanks for your feedback. By crash, I mean python crashing with a Windows c005 error. I can't even capture that exception in a try...except structure. This is on an Intel Core2Duo 2.7GHz with 4 GB of RAM, with Acrobat Reader X installed, which

[issue25309] askopenfilename crashes on XP with "Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items" on

2015-10-03 Thread alex wieder
New submission from alex wieder: Hi, This is my first bug report, so please be gentle if I don't stick to protocol correctly. I'm also tired from spending about 8 hours tracking down this problem. OS Affected: XP SP3 (maybe others as well, and I'm aware that python does