[New-bugs-announce] [issue27310] 3.6.0a2 IDLE.app on OS X fails to launch, use command line idle3.6 instead

[Ned Deily]

New submission from Ned Deily:

For 3.6.0a2, when attempting to launch IDLE.app on OS X (for example, by double-clicking the IDLE icon in the "/Applications/Python 3.6" folder), IDLE does not launch.  In the system.log there will be a log message similar to:

(org.python.IDLE.917792[45897]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

The problem is that the glue code (idlemain.py) used to launch IDLE from within the IDLE app bundle is trying to import macosxSupport which has been renamed as of 3.6.0a2.  However, there is no longer any reason for the app bundle to import this module: this is vestigial code that I should have removed some releases ago when I refactored macosxSupport.  It hasn't hurt up until now.

As a workaround for 3.6.0a2, you can launch IDLE from a terminal command line:

/usr/local/bin/idle3.6

or you *could* carefully msnuslly edit the file /Applications/Python 3.6/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlemain.py to remove the two lines near the end:

from idlelib import macosxSupport
macosxSupport._appbundle = True

Fix for 3.6.0a3 to follow.

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assignee: ned.deily
components: IDLE
messages: 268487
nosy: ned.deily
priority: critical
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: 3.6.0a2 IDLE.app on OS X fails to launch, use command line idle3.6 instead
versions: Python 3.6

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