TomSchimansky / TomSchimansky/TkinterMapView
Error thrown when closing GUI
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Description
When closing a GUI window with a tkintermapview widget in a tab, it throws the following error:
Exception ignored in: <function Image.__del__ at 0x7ff8fe646af0>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.9/tkinter/__init__.py", line 4018, in __del__
TypeError: catching classes that do not inherit from BaseException is not allowed
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the error when closing a GUI window containing a tkintermapview widget inside a tab. Use the traceback's tkinter/init.py Image.del path to investigate the cleanup failure; done means closing the window no longer emits this exception.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100