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丁明 writes (edited for spelling):

In your book <<python for kids>> chapter 13, when I run the program, the python shell has a error I can't understand. my python version 3.6.0. Thank you for your reply!!

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I'm not sure if the Chinese edition has captured the text on page 199 of the English version of the book:

You may see error messages written to the shell when you close the game window. This is because when you close the window, the code is breaking out of the while loop, and Python is complaining about it.

The is exactly the error you are seeing when you run that code and then close the window. You are stopping (interrupting) Python while it is running the code, and an error message is displayed as a consequence.

Basically, you can ignore the message, but if you want to know how to get rid of it for good, one option is to replace the loop at the bottom:

while True:
    ball.draw()
    tk.update_idletasks()
    tk.update()
    time.sleep(0.01)

...with this...

try:
    while True:
        ball.draw()
        tk.update_idletasks()
        tk.update()
        time.sleep(0.01)
except TclError:
    pass

You can find more about error handling here: https://wiki.python.org/moin/HandlingExceptions