Issue #17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for
non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py b/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py
index ce28d08..67ab1f6 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
import os
import sys
import string
-from idlelib import macosxSupport
from ConfigParser import ConfigParser, NoOptionError, NoSectionError
class InvalidConfigType(Exception): pass
@@ -526,10 +525,13 @@
def GetCurrentKeySet(self):
result = self.GetKeySet(self.CurrentKeys())
- if macosxSupport.runningAsOSXApp():
- # We're using AquaTk, replace all keybingings that use the
- # Alt key by ones that use the Option key because the former
- # don't work reliably.
+ if sys.platform == "darwin":
+ # OS X Tk variants do not support the "Alt" keyboard modifier.
+ # So replace all keybingings that use "Alt" with ones that
+ # use the "Option" keyboard modifier.
+ # TO DO: the "Option" modifier does not work properly for
+ # Cocoa Tk and XQuartz Tk so we should not use it
+ # in default OS X KeySets.
for k, v in result.items():
v2 = [ x.replace('<Alt-', '<Option-') for x in v ]
if v != v2: