Jarrod Petz added the comment: Worked around this by setting HOME to be USERPROFILE before IDLE starts
Rather then change the system/user environment permanently. I edited the Idle script which the windows shortcut seems to run below. C:\Python35\Lib\idlelib\idle.pyw At the top of the script I added ------------------------------------ import os os.environ['HOME'] = os.environ['USERPROFILE'] ------------------------------------ ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27263> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
