Without this patch OSX users couldn't add new help sources because the code

tried to update one item in a tuple.

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/configHelpSourceEdit.py b/Lib/idlelib/configHelpSourceEdit.py
index 3db1e0ae5eca45b6899f749218458ac1efa73357..8924f792bb57550746cfaf66b98dc79192fc79b6 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/idlelib/configHelpSourceEdit.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/configHelpSourceEdit.py
@@ -151,6 +151,7 @@ class GetHelpSourceDialog(Toplevel):
                     pass
                 else:
                     # Mac Safari insists on using the URI form for local files
+                    self.result = list(self.result)
                     self.result[1] = "file://" + path
             self.destroy()