UNABLE TO GET IDLE TO RUN

[Peter Otten]

Terry Reedy wrote:

Thank you for your patience.

> Why do you think it a misfeature for IDLE to execute code the way Python
> does?

Sadly I wasn't aware that the interactive interpreter is also vulnerable.
I should have been, but failed to add one and one.

Until now I have often started python in a directory with unknown contents, 
to use it as a calculator or to explore the files in that directory.

I will stop doing so.