Dear All,
I’ve just installed OpenSuse 11.0 and I’m quite happy with it. I also installed Python 2.5.2 with IDLE 1.2.2. from the 11.0 repository. Unfortunately I ran into the following problem.
I open a terminal window and type idle at the prompt. The IDLE window opens and starts the Python shell up to its >>> prompt.
When typing :
>>> l = len(
to query the length of an object, instead of getting a Call Tip, I get on my terminal (where I ran idle) the message below:
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py”, line 1403, in call
return self.func(args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/MultiCall.py”, line 151, in handler
r = l(event)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py”, line 55, in
try_open_calltip_event
self.open_calltip(False)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py”, line 79, in open_calltip
self.calltip.showtip(arg_text, sur_paren[0], sur_paren[1])
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py”, line 66, in showtip
self.position_window()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py”, line 35, in
position_window
self.parencol))
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py”, line 2833, in bbox
self.tk.call((self._w, ‘bbox’) + args)) or None
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py”, line 1030, in _getints
return tuple(map(getint, self.tk.splitlist(string)))
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ‘(117,’
Actually, 117 is the x-coordinate (in pixels) where the cursor is positioned and where I’m about to see an little box with the appropriate call tip.
and when closing the parenthesis the following messages:
Exception in Tkinter callback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk/Tkinter.py”, line 1403, in call
return self.func(args)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/MultiCall.py”, line 151, in handler
r = l(event)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py”, line 62, in
refresh_calltip_event
self.open_calltip(False)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py”, line 65, in open_calltip
self._remove_calltip_window()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTips.py”, line 41, in
_remove_calltip_window
self.calltip.hidetip()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib/CallTipWindow.py”, line 126, in hidetip
self.label.destroy()
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘destroy’*
Furhtermore there is one little X window that opens up, totally empty and useless (I suppose that this is the box appearing in place of the proper call tip box).
IDLE works but each time you expect a Tip to appear you receive instead a bunch of messages to the console.
I have tried installing Python/IDLE (version 2.5.4) from source, to see if this was an error in the TK Interface but I have never succeeded with the installation 
(the problem is that it can’t find the tcl/tk libraries even when pointing to them - that’s another subject).
Thank you for your answers.
Regards, Rene**