I have not seen this posted, so... To run IDLE with Python3.0rc1, edit Python30/Libs/idlelib/run.py, and change "set_daemon(True)" to "daemon = True" and save. (This is about line 75, and the only appearance of 'daemon'.) Otherwise, you get error message about not starting a subprocess.
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