IDLE Show completions pop-up not working on Ubuntu Linux

@terryjreedy

BPO	45193
Nosy	@terryjreedy, @taleinat, @ned-deily, @ambv, @pablogsal, @miss-islington
PRs	bpo-45193: IDLE: fix auto-complete list not appearing on Linux #28328 bpo-45193: Restore IDLE completion boxes on Ubuntu #28343 [3.10] bpo-45193: Restore IDLE completion boxes on Ubuntu (GH-28343) #28347 bpo-45193: News for IDLE PR_28343 #28348 [3.10] bpo-45193: News for IDLE PR_28343 (GH-28348) #28369 gh-96910: IDLE - make autocomplete winnconfig handler only trigger once #28332

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assignee = 'https://github.com/terryjreedy'
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created_at = <Date 2021-09-14.06:29:20.436>
labels = ['expert-IDLE', 'type-bug', '3.9']
title = 'IDLE Show completions pop-up not working on Ubuntu Linux'
updated_at = <Date 2022-01-24.01:25:34.268>
user = 'https://github.com/taleinat'

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The completion window never appears with Python version 3.9.7 and with the current main branch.

Ubuntu 20.04 (reproduced on two separate machines)
Tested with Tcl/Tk versions 8.6.10 and 8.6.11.

This is directly caused by the fix for issue bpo-40128. Commenting out that line resolves this issue entirely.

(See also the PR for that fix, PR #70859.)

I've also tested this on Windows 10 with the latest main branch (to be 3.11). The completions window works as expected with or without the recently added .update_idletasks() call.

I do recommend limiting this to macOS (platform.system() == "Darwin").

Ideally we'd test this on macOS with several versions of tcl/tk (8.6.8, 8.6.9, 8.6.10, 8.6.11) and limit it to only those versions where the fix is required:

TK_VERSION = tuple(map(int, tk.call("info", "patchlevel").split(".")))
if (8, 6, 8) <= TK_VERSION < (8, 6, 10):
    acw.update_idletasks()

Also we might check if calling .update() is enough, since that does less than .update_idletasks().

See PR #72515 with proposed fix. It should be tested on macOS with several relevant versions of Tcl/Tk to ensure that the Tk version range used is correct.

New changeset 7f2d049 by Pablo Galindo (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.10':
bpo-45193: Restore IDLE completion boxes on Ubuntu (GH-28343)
7f2d049

New changeset d08e4a8 by Pablo Galindo (Miss Islington (bot)) in branch '3.10':
bpo-45193: News for IDLE PR_28343 (GH-28348)
d08e4a8

It's too late for 3.9, right?

Yes. This was apparently fixed for 3.10 and 3.11 and left open for 3.9. But never got enough info to decide anything. Closing.

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