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[3.13] gh-55646: Do not crash IDLE on an invalid key binding (GH-152747) - #158265

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A typo in a key binding, such as for , crashed IDLE at startup. It is now ignored with a warning.

On macOS an invalid binding such as is not parsed into a MultiCall triplet, so it falls back to Tk's event_add(), which was left unguarded and still crashed. Guard the fallback too, and test both the parsed (bind()) and unparsed (event_add()) paths on every platform.


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…ythonGH-152747)

A typo in a key binding, such as <Alt-Key-up> for <Alt-Key-Up>, crashed IDLE
at startup.  It is now ignored with a warning.

On macOS an invalid binding such as <Alt-Key-up> is not parsed into a
MultiCall triplet, so it falls back to Tk's event_add(), which was left
unguarded and still crashed.  Guard the fallback too, and test both the
parsed (bind()) and unparsed (event_add()) paths on every platform.

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Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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