Terry Reedy wrote: Thank you for your patience.
> Why do you think it a misfeature for IDLE to execute code the way Python > does? Sadly I wasn't aware that the interactive interpreter is also vulnerable. I should have been, but failed to add one and one. Until now I have often started python in a directory with unknown contents, to use it as a calculator or to explore the files in that directory. I will stop doing so. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
