[New-bugs-announce] [issue22121] IDLE should start with HOME as the initial working directory

[Mark Summerfield]

New submission from Mark Summerfield:

On Windows IDLE's working directory is Python's install directory, e.g., C:\Python34. ISTM that this is the wrong directory for 99% of general users and for 100% of beginners since this is _not_ the directory where people should save their own .py files (unless they are experts, in which case they know better and won't anyway).

I think that IDLE should start out in the user's home directory (ideally on all platforms).

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components: IDLE
messages: 224537
nosy: mark
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: IDLE should start with HOME as the initial working directory
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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