[issue27263] IDLE sets the HOME environment variable breaking scripts

[Jarrod Petz]

Jarrod Petz added the comment:

Worked around this by setting HOME to be USERPROFILE before IDLE starts

Rather then change the system/user environment permanently. I edited the Idle script which the windows shortcut seems to run below.

C:\Python35\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw

At the top of the script I added
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import os
os.environ['HOME'] = os.environ['USERPROFILE']
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