diff --git a/content/posts/python-31022-31117/index.md b/content/posts/python-31022-31117/index.md index 59d8d62..59ca19c 100644 --- a/content/posts/python-31022-31117/index.md +++ b/content/posts/python-31022-31117/index.md @@ -58,6 +58,22 @@ This XML hash-flooding protection was already included in Python 3.11.16. For the full details, see the [3.10.22 changelog](https://docs.python.org/release/3.10.22/whatsnew/changelog.html), [3.11.17 changelog](https://docs.python.org/release/3.11.17/whatsnew/changelog.html), [3.12.15 changelog](https://docs.python.org/release/3.12.15/whatsnew/changelog.html), [3.13.16 changelog](https://docs.python.org/release/3.13.16/whatsnew/changelog.html), and [3.14.8 changelog](https://docs.python.org/release/3.14.8/whatsnew/changelog.html). +## Attention macOS 27.0 `IDLE` or `tkinter` users + +When running IDLE or other GUI applications that use the `tkinter` module, these +applications may hang when using an application's menu command that opens a +dialog (for example, IDLE's `About IDLE`, `Settings`, and `Open Module` commands) +resulting in a spinning beach ball with `Force Quit` needed. + +This problem is due to an operating system behavior change in macOS 27.0 that is +believed to affect all current versions of the Tk graphics toolkit and thus the +`tkinter` module in all current Python versions. + +If you depend on Tk-based applications (like IDLE) on macOS, you may want to +consider deferring installing macOS 27.0 until a Tk or macOS workaround is +available or testing that your application workflow is not affected. Follow +issue [#158053](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/158053) for updates. + ## And now for something completely different When two black holes merge, the newly formed black hole is distorted. It settles towards a stationary state by emitting gravitational waves in a process called **ringdown**. Like a struck bell, it oscillates with a signal that fades away. These oscillations are described by quasinormal modes; their frequencies and decay times depend on the final black hole’s mass and spin. You can watch spacetime doing its final ringing in [this NASA simulation](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13197).