[Python-Dev] If you shadow a module in the standard library that IDLE depends on, bad things happen

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:30:09 +0000, Paul Moore writes:
>On 29 October 2015 at 18:45, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> So I don=E2=80=99t think it=E2=80=99s true that people don=E2=80=99t shad=
>> ow the standard library, they just have various ways to do it that have s=
>> everal gotchas and require people to generally hack around the limitation=
>> .=C2=A0
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>(Your mailer or mine seems to have gone weird with encoding...)

Dstuffts.  I see this problem too
Laura