The change in the linecache.checkcache() signature at rev 1.13 caused IDLE to exit
when an exception was raised while running w/o the subprocess. Python Bug 1063840
M NEWS.txt
M PyShell.py
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 4df9fa5..931d67e 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
*Release date: XX-XXX-2004*
+- A change to the linecache.py API caused IDLE to exit when an exception was
+ raised while running without the subprocess (-n switch). Python Bug 1063840.
+
What's New in IDLE 1.1b2?
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