Bug 488208 – dev-lang/python: Backport patch fixing TKinter problems

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2013-10-16 10:57:05 UTC]

Please backport http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/84f40562669f

which fixes problems with the first fix for

http://bugs.python.org/issue19008

like

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib64/sparky/python/sparky/__init__.py", line 51, in start_session
    tk = tkutil.initialize_tk(argv)
  File "/usr/lib64/sparky/python/sparky/tkutil.py", line 924, in initialize_tk
    tk = Tkinter.Tk(display, program_name, program_class)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1748, in __init__
    if not sys.flags.ignore_environment:
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'sys' referenced before assignment

[Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2013-10-16 12:34:19 UTC]

Probably the code needs to be correctly like this:

        self.tk = None
        import sys
        if baseName is None:
            import os

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2013-10-16 15:23:15 UTC]

Working on it.

[Comment 3 Mike Gilbert 2013-10-16 23:44:39 UTC]

+*python-2.7.5-r3 (16 Oct 2013)
+*python-3.2.5-r3 (16 Oct 2013)
+
+  16 Oct 2013; Mike Gilbert <[e-mail]>
+  +files/python-2.7-issue16248.patch, +files/python-3.2-issue16248.patch,
+  +python-2.7.5-r3.ebuild, +python-3.2.5-r3.ebuild, -python-2.7.5-r2.ebuild,
+  -python-3.2.5-r2.ebuild:
+  Apply upstream fix for regression in Tkinter, bug 488208 by jlec.
+