[issue8231] Unable to run IDLE without write-access to home directory

2015-10-01 Thread John Gray
John Gray added the comment: See Issue14576 which is the same underlying issue. -- nosy: +John Gray ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue8231> ___ ___

[issue14576] IDLE: inconsistent use of HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, and USERPROFILE on Windows

2015-10-01 Thread John Gray
John Gray added the comment: For the h: drive issue mentioned above: This was on Python 2.7.10. -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue14576> ___ ___

[issue14576] IDLE: inconsistent use of HOMEDRIVE, HOMEPATH, and USERPROFILE on Windows

2015-10-01 Thread John Gray
John Gray added the comment: I hit this issue with an "H:" homedrive that is on a network share, and then in Windows is using "offline files" to keep a local copy. .idlerc was not cached so IDLE worked when online/connected to my work network but not when I was offl