[Idle-dev] Why does IDLE open System32?

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/15/2021 2:25 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 9/15/2021 12:31 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:

> When I start 3.8.10 on Windows and select Open file, the dialog opens in 
> the Python installation directory*.  I have no idea why your copy would 
> do differently.  If you switch to that directory, that is your 
> responsibility.
> 
> 3.8 only gets security fixes, but if there were something wrong that 
> remains in 3.9, we would try to fix it.
> 
> *There was a release, I remember not which, that did start in W/S32 
> because that was somehow Windows' default.  We quickly changed that for 
> the reasons you specified.
> 
Emailed response: "It's possible I inherited that from a registry 
setting in the bad version. I would never choose that directory. 
Anyway, I'll upgrade and verify it works properly."

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Terry Jan Reedy