[issue24212] Idle, 2.7, backport idlelib.__main__, enable py -m idlelib

[Terry J. Reedy]

Terry J. Reedy added the comment:

The idea, obviously, is for python -m idlelib to also work on all systems.  When this was requested as part of the discussion on another issue, I thought there was no idlelib.__main__ because __main__ did not work on 2.7.  Someone corrected me and the expectation of me and others was that the absence was just an easily corrected oversight.  Turns out not so.  I wanted to at least document that the backport is not trivial.  I am rather curious why the same code behaves so differently on 2.7.

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