[issue4985] Idle hangs when given a nonexistent filename.

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Closing this in favour of issue 3573. -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed superseder: -> IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args (directory(ies) instead of file(s)) ___ Python tracker

[issue4985] Idle hangs when given a nonexistent filename.

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[issue4985] Idle hangs when given a nonexistent filename.

Guilherme Polo added the comment: Ah, retried this bug a bit more and found out that to hang you have to run idle with the -e option and a non-existing filename. Anyway, this was all introduced by r57998. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue4985] Idle hangs when given a nonexistent filename.

Guilherme Polo added the comment: I tried it here but it didn't hang. But I did notice the editor window was created and then disappeared, differently from what happens in python-trunk. I don't believe creating new files is a good solution, idle on python-trunk doesn't need to do this to work n

[issue4985] Idle hangs when given a nonexistent filename.

New submission from Romeo Victor Dellarocco : Idle hangs when given the name of a nonexistent file. The idle window briefly appears, then disappears, the process hangs and has to be terminated. Platform: Linux 2.6.22-16-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Mon Nov 24 21:03:25 GMT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu