[issue13675] IDLE won't open if it can't read recent-files.lst

Michael Foord added the comment: Thanks -- resolution: -> duplicate status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-li

[issue13675] IDLE won't open if it can't read recent-files.lst

Roger Serwy added the comment: This is a duplicate of issue4625 and was fixed. The silently failing is part of issue13582. -- nosy: +serwy ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue13675] IDLE won't open if it can't read recent-files.lst

New submission from Michael Foord : Reported by a user. Reported on Windows but probably not Windows specific. If IDLE doesn't have permission to read the recent-files.lst file then it crashes. (When launched with pythonw.exe on Windows it silently fails to open with no error message to the us