idle3 crashes on ctrl-space

[emghazal]

Binary package hint: idle3

IDLE crashes when I press ctrl-space, with this error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/idle3", line 5, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1420, in main
    root.mainloop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.1/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1012, in mainloop
    self.tk.mainloop(n)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode bytes in position 0-1: illegal encoding

idle3 version 3.1-1ubuntu1
also in: idle-python3.1 version 3.1.1-0ubuntu5

On Karmic, amd64.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Still happens with python3.2.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/idle3", line 5, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1427, in main
    root.mainloop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1012, in mainloop
    self.tk.mainloop(n)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc0 in position 0: invalid start byte

[Keith Baker (keibak)]

Bug still present in Natty:

:~$ idle-python3.2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/idle-python3.2", line 5, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/idlelib/PyShell.py", line 1427, in main
    root.mainloop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.2/tkinter/__init__.py", line 1012, in mainloop
    self.tk.mainloop(n)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xc0 in position 0: invalid start byte

To reproduce:
- open shell
- import os
- hit crtl+space

[Henrique Sant'Anna (hsantanna)]

largely discussed here:
http://bugs.python.org/issue1028