Loading modules at startup in IDLE

[Peter Otten]

Daniel Klein wrote:

> Does anyone know a way to automatically load modules in IDLE at
> startup?
> 
> I can set %PYTHONSTARTUP% but this only works for the interactive
> prompt, not in IDLE. I tried doing the same thing with %IDLESTARTUP%
> but received no joy.
> 
> What am I missing? Or has this capability been removed on 2.3?


Quoth the usage message (idle -h):

-s         run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP before anything else