gh-88496: IDLE - fix test hangs on MacOS

terryjreedy · terryjreedy · commit 416817752dae · 2023-04-26T02:16:38.000-04:00
Replace widget.update() with widget.update_idletasks in two places.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/colorizer.py b/Lib/idlelib/colorizer.py
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ def recolorize_main(self):
                     # crumb telling the next invocation to resume here
                     # in case update tells us to leave.
                     self.tag_add("TODO", next)
-                self.update()
+                self.update_idletasks()
                 if self.stop_colorizing:
                     if DEBUG: print("colorizing stopped")
                     return
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/outwin.py b/Lib/idlelib/outwin.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def write(self, s, tags=(), mark="insert"):
         assert isinstance(s, str)
         self.text.insert(mark, s, tags)
         self.text.see(mark)
-        self.text.update()
+        self.text.update_idletasks()
         return len(s)
 
     def writelines(self, lines):
