On 9/15/2021 12:31 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 9/14/2021 5:19 PM, Michael M. Ross wrote:
IDLE should not open C:\Windows\System32.
That's not a valid location to save or keep files.
We know that. The IDLE distribution with all current versions of Python
should not do that unless the user edits a file in that directory. What
version are you running that does so otherwise?
Michael wrote to me: "Hi, I'm using 3.8.10."
When I start 3.8.10 on Windows and select Open file, the dialog opens in
the Python installation directory*. I have no idea why your copy would
do differently. If you switch to that directory, that is your
responsibility.
3.8 only gets security fixes, but if there were something wrong that
remains in 3.9, we would try to fix it.
*There was a release, I remember not which, that did start in W/S32
because that was somehow Windows' default. We quickly changed that for
the reasons you specified.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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