Key presses are doubled in Tkinter dialog invoked from window close handler with Cocoa Tk

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start with the original BPO issue and reproduce the Tkinter dialog invoked from a window close handler using Cocoa Tk. Trace the close-handler and dialog entry points to identify why each key press is processed twice; done means the dialog accepts each key press once.

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Description

stdlib topic-tkinter type-bug
BPO 23128
Nosy @ned-deily

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2014-12-29.16:34:22.755>
labels = ['type-bug', 'expert-tkinter']
title = 'Key presses are doubled in Tkinter dialog invoked from window close handler with Cocoa Tk'
updated_at = <Date 2015-02-06.16:32:27.702>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/pew'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2015-02-06.16:32:27.702>
actor = 'ned.deily'
assignee = 'none'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Tkinter']
creation = <Date 2014-12-29.16:34:22.755>
creator = 'pew'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 23128
keywords = []
message_count = 4.0
messages = ['233177', '233186', '233207', '235487']
nosy_count = 2.0
nosy_names = ['ned.deily', 'pew']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue23128'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5']

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