[issue25575] idle not working

[Zachary Ware]

Zachary Ware added the comment:

Check the traceback carefully, it shows exactly where the problem is, though it's not immediately obvious until it's bitten you a time or two. You are running /Users/a5/Desktop/z.py which imports turtle, but you have a turtle.py in /Users/a5/Desktop which is found before the standard library turtle. Your command line test works because it is run from a different directory.  Just remove or rename /Users/a5/Desktop/turtle.py and it will work.

There have been other reports about this lately, and there are on-going discussions about what can be done to try to prevent this situation.

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nosy: +zach.ware
resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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