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GeezerVison is showing github.com — [3.13] gh-153480: Stop IDLE crashing when a file open in the editor is deleted (GH-153481) by miss-islington · Pull Request #158263 · python/cpython

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@miss-islington miss-islington commented Sep 27, 2026 •
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EditorWindow.focus_in_event calls last_mtime on every event,
which passed the open file path to os.path.getmtime with no guard. When
another program deleted or renamed the file, refocusing the IDLE window
let a FileNotFoundError escape the Tk event handler. last_mtime now
returns the last known mtime when the path is inaccessible, so refocusing
no longer raises and does not prompt to reload a file that is gone.
See PR discussion for more.

(cherry picked from commit 6af40a6)

Co-authored-by: tonghuaroot (童话) [email protected]
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka [email protected]

  • Issue: IDLE fails to start or raises when an editor window's file does not exist #153480

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pythongh-153480: Stop IDLE crashing when a file open in the editor is…
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… deleted (pythonGH-153481)

EditorWindow.focus_in_event calls last_mtime on every <FocusIn> event,
which passed the open file path to os.path.getmtime with no guard. When
another program deleted or renamed the file, refocusing the IDLE window
let a FileNotFoundError escape the Tk event handler. last_mtime now
returns the last known mtime when the path is inaccessible, so refocusing
no longer raises and does not prompt to reload a file that is gone.
See PR discussion for more.

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(cherry picked from commit 6af40a6)

Co-authored-by: tonghuaroot (童话) <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
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miss-islington requested a review from terryjreedy as a code owner September 27, 2026 01:13
@bedevere-app bedevere-app Bot mentioned this pull request Sep 27, 2026
IDLE fails to start or raises when an editor window's file does not exist #153480
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gh-153480: Stop IDLE crashing when a file open in the editor is deleted #153481
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terryjreedy merged commit 694e737 into python:3.13 Sep 27, 2026
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miss-islington deleted the backport-6af40a6-3.13 branch September 27, 2026 01:37
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