[issue39927] IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents

Van Warren added the comment: If you are running from a conda python library and don't want the weight of Jupyter for a quick python hack, add this to your .bashrc file (or equivalent shell startup) alias idle='python -m idlelib' This will bypass faulty default MacOS installs in

[issue39927] IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: The solution given by Ned above also solved https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60648250/cannot-open-idle-on-mac. So dd's situation was not unique. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue39927] IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Right. I rechecked and Terminal starts in /Users/ and a user can easily switch to Documents or anything else. Dialogs open in the same directory. IDLE should stay wherever when started from terminal. That was agreed on #22121 (Checking 'sys.stdout is

[issue39927] IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents

Ned Deily added the comment: As Ronald notes, the chdir to the user’s Documents folder is *only* needed when launching via IDLE.app (for example by double-clicking an IDLE.app icon in the macOS Finder) because the user has no control over the launched app’s working directory in that case and

[issue39927] IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Note that IDLE.app sets the current working directory to ~/Documents to have a sane working directory (and hence sane behavior in file dialogs), by default app bundles on macOS are launched with the root directory as the current working directory. For

[issue39927] IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: idlemain.py should be documented within idlelib* (I will do that, README.txt and maybe macosx.py). Currently, the chdir is only part of idle.app, not idle on Mac, because it does not happen when starting IDLE in Terminal. This is confusing. As near as I

[issue39927] IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents

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[issue39927] IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents

Ned Deily added the comment: Actually, IDLE *does* call os.chdir set the working directory when launched from IDLE.app on macOS: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Mac/IDLE/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlemain.py#L8 While it's not in the idlelib directory, it's very much part of

[issue39927] IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- title: IDLE.app fails to launch on macOS 10.15 if denied access to user's Document Folder -> IDLE.app fails on macOS 10.15 if denied access to Documents ___ Python tracker