idle crashes on configure through menu

[Sean Pedersen]

IDLE crashes when "Configure IDLE" is selected through "Options". Terminal output is as follows:

Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1540, in __call__
    return self.func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/idlelib/EditorWindow.py", line 543, in config_dialog
    configDialog.ConfigDialog(self.top,'Settings')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/idlelib/configDialog.py", line 72, in __init__
    self.LoadConfigs()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/idlelib/configDialog.py", line 1103, in LoadConfigs
    self.LoadFontCfg()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/idlelib/configDialog.py", line 1005, in LoadFontCfg
    self.SetFontSample()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/idlelib/configDialog.py", line 883, in SetFontSample
    self.labelFontSample.config(font=newFont)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1329, in configure
    return self._configure('configure', cnf, kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1320, in _configure
    self.tk.call(_flatten((self._w, cmd)) + self._options(cnf))
TclError: expected integer but got ""

1) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
2) Package idle 2.7.11-1
3) Expected Options Menu
4) Instead nothing happened.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python2.7 - 2.7.11-9

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python2.7 (2.7.11-9) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20160509 from the 2.7 branch.
    - Issue #25745: Fixed leaking a userptr in curses panel destructor.
    - Issue #17765: weakref.ref() no longer silently ignores keyword arguments.
    - Issue #26873: xmlrpclib now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags
      instead of silently return incorrect result.
    - Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.
    - Issue #26864: In urllib, change the proxy bypass host checking against
      no_proxy to be case-insensitive, and to not match unrelated host names
      that happen to have a bypassed hostname as a suffix.
    - Issue #26804: urllib will prefer lower_case proxy environment variables
      over UPPER_CASE or Mixed_Case ones.
    - Issue #26837: assertSequenceEqual() now correctly outputs non-stringified
      differing items. This affects assertListEqual() and assertTupleEqual().
    - Issue #26822: itemgetter, attrgetter and methodcaller objects no longer
      silently ignore keyword arguments.
    - Issue #26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with SimpleHTTPServer
      on Windows. This fixes a regression that was introduced in 2.7.7.
    - Issue #26736: Used HTTPS for external links in the documentation if
      possible.
    - Issue #22359: Avoid incorrect recursive $(MAKE), and disable the rules for
      running pgen when cross-compiling.
    - Issue #26799: Fix python-gdb.py: don't get C types once when the Python
      code is loaded, but get C types on demand. The C types can change if
      python-gdb.py is loaded before the Python executable.
  * Fix issue #26673, runtime error in idle3. LP: #1578927.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Mon, 09 May 2016 17:54:33 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sean Pedersen (burgess-pedersen)]

Correction: Options menu opens; Options window does not.

[Sean Pedersen (burgess-pedersen)]

Solution:

/idlelib/configDialog-old.py
114c114
< self.fontSize = IntVar(parent)
---
> self.fontSize = StringVar(parent)

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Sean, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python2.7 into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.7/2.7.12-1~16.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

now fixed in 2.7.12 available in xenial-proposed

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for python2.7 has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python2.7 - 2.7.12-1~16.04

---------------
python2.7 (2.7.12-1~16.04) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU: LP: #1591895. Backport 2.7.12 to 16.04 LTS.

python2.7 (2.7.12-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 2.7.12 release.

python2.7 (2.7.12~rc1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Extend debian/copyright to the files shipped in the wheel files.

python2.7 (2.7.12~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 2.7.12 release candidate 1.
    - Issue #20041: Fixed TypeError when frame.f_trace is set to None.
    - Issue #25702: A --with-lto configure option has been added that will
      enable link time optimizations at build time during a make profile-opt.
      Some compilers and toolchains are known to not produce stable code when
      using LTO, be sure to test things thoroughly before relying on it.
      It can provide a few % speed up over profile-opt alone.
    - Issue #26556: Update expat to 2.1.1, fixes CVE-2015-1283.
    - Fix TLS stripping vulnerability in smptlib, CVE-2016-0772.
    - Issue #7356: ctypes.util: Make parsing of ldconfig output independent of
      the locale.
    - Issue #25738: Stop BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_error()
      from sending a message body for 205 Reset Content. Also, don't send the
      Content-Type header field in responses that don't have a body.
    - Issue #21313: Fix the "platform" module to tolerate when sys.version
      contains truncated build information.
    - Issue #27211: Fix possible memory corruption in io.IOBase.readline().
    - Issue #5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on X11.
      This matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux apps,
      and ttk widgets.
    - Issue #24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory
      is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.
    - Issue #21916: Added tests for the turtle module.
    - Issue #27229: Fix the cross-compiling pgen rule for in-tree builds.
    - Issue #17500, and https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/945: Remove
      unused and outdated icons.

python2.7 (2.7.11-11) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update to 20160602 from the 2.7 branch.
    - Issue #26168: Fixed possible refleaks in failing Py_BuildValue() with
      the "N" format unit.
    - Issue #27114: Fix SSLContext._load_windows_store_certs fails with
      PermissionError.
    - Issue #26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10.
      Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.
    - Issue #27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.
    - In the 'IDLE-console differences' section of the IDLE doc, clarify
      how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.
    - Issue #25507: Fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing.
      Change also prevented saving shell window with non-ascii characters.
      Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions.
    - Issue #25905: Revert unwanted conversion of ' to ’ RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION
      MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with 'ascii'.
      Re-encode CREDITS....