UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:42:54 +0200, Peter Otten writes:
>I tried it out:
>
>$ mkdir test
>$ cd test
>$ touch string.py
>$ idle3
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
>  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/run.py", line 12, in <module>
>    from idlelib import CallTips
>  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/CallTips.py", line 16, in <module>
>    from idlelib.HyperParser import HyperParser
>  File "/usr/lib/python3.4/idlelib/HyperParser.py", line 14, in <module>
>    _ASCII_ID_CHARS = frozenset(string.ascii_letters + string.digits + "_")
>AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ascii_letters'
>
>Then idle shows the message and quits after you hit OK.
>
>Is there a bug report?

I didn't make one at the time.  I am not finding one on the tracker that
looks like it.

Laura