From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 17:42:34 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.4rc1~781
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7148984d61b5677af1ee090e52c1cba08299c9f9;p=python

Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
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diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
index fb05245dc3..68b51e6868 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/EditorWindow.py
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ class EditorWindow(object):
         # for each edit window instance, construct the recent files menu
         for instance in self.top.instance_dict.keys():
             menu = instance.recent_files_menu
-            menu.delete(1, END)  # clear, and rebuild:
+            menu.delete(0, END)  # clear, and rebuild:
             for i, file_name in enumerate(rf_list):
                 file_name = file_name.rstrip()  # zap \n
                 # make unicode string to display non-ASCII chars correctly
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index efcf550119..2c50c2f6ba 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
+
 - Issue12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes Idle.
   Original patch by Roger Serwy.