[Idle-dev] Why does IDLE open System32?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Sep 15 12:31:22 EDT 2021


On 9/14/2021 5:19 PM, Michael M. Ross wrote:
> IDLE should not open C:\Windows\System32.
> That's not a valid location to save or keep files.

We know that.  The IDLE distribution with all current versions of Python 
should not do that unless the user edits a file in that directory.  What 
version are you running that does so otherwise?


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Terry Jan Reedy


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