Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:
idlemain.py should be documented within idlelib* (I will do that, README.txt
and maybe macosx.py). Currently, the chdir is only part of idle.app, not idle
on Mac, because it does not happen when starting IDLE in Terminal. This is
confusing. As near as I can tell, it is not needed in idlemain.py. If so, it
should be moved (revised) into idlelib startup code so it always runs on Mac.
How about something like:
try:
os.chdir(os.path.expanduser('~/Documents'))
except OSError: # I presume
<display tk message box: cannot access Documents, explain how to change>
os.chdir(os.path.expanduser('~')) # Can this fail?
* The only mention of 'IDLE.app' in idlelib is in the news item for #27310,
where you mention 'idlemain.py', sans path.
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