[Python-Dev] If you shadow a module in the standard library that IDLE depends on, bad things happen

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/29/2015 4:53 PM, Mark Roseman wrote:
>> Need I submit a bug report/feature request to get this happening?
>> Very, very pleased to have mentioned it …
>
> I took care of the bug report.

The idle issue is https://bugs.python.org/issue25514

As I said there, I think that removing '' from sys.path, so that IDLE 
can run, is better than a nicer warning that it cannot run.  This, of 
course, requires that sys not be shadowed, so that sys.path can be accessed.


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Terry Jan Reedy