Message 363872 - Python tracker

Message363872

Author	ned.deily
Recipients	dd789, ned.deily, terry.reedy
Date	2020-03-11.00:29:47
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Thanks for bringing it up! That was a new failure mode we haven't seen before. I was going to close this issue but then it struck me that we might be able to handle this situation a bit better; we should be able to catch an exception when IDLE tries to set the working directory to Documents. I'll leave it up to you, Terry, if you want to pursue this. I won't have time myself right now but maybe someone else would be willing to jump in. It may be a little tricky to test and certainly requires a macOS 10.15.x Catalina system.

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Thanks for bringing it up!  That was a new failure mode we haven't seen before.

I was going to close this issue but then it struck me that we might be able to handle this situation a bit better; we should be able to catch an exception when IDLE tries to set the working directory to Documents.  I'll leave it up to you, Terry, if you want to pursue this.  I won't have time myself right now but maybe someone else would be willing to jump in.  It may be a little tricky to test and certainly requires a macOS 10.15.x Catalina system.

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