Ned Deily added the comment:
That's really odd. It looks you have a permissions problem with your home
directory. On startup, IDLE attempts to create the directory .idlerc in your
home directory, /Users/ben, if it doesn't exist already. If for some reason
the directory creation fails, IDLE aborts. Interestingly, if the directory
exists but IDLE lacks write permission to create files in it, it does not abort
but posts a warning message in a window. Perhaps it could be a little more
consistent about that. But still, this appears to be avery unusual situation.
I can't think of any reason why IDLE would be unable to create a directory
unless you have some security system installed or some unusual access control
list setting. The most likely reason is just a plain old permission problem on
your home directory. Try this in a terminal session:
cd ~
ls -lde ~
You should see something similar to this:
drwxr-xr-x+ 38 nad staff 2992 Apr 28 15:26 /Users/nad/
0: group:everyone deny delete
if the permissions string is missing the "w" ("dr-xr-x"), that means you do not
have write permission to your home directory and can't create new directories
there. In that case,
mkdir ~/.idlerc
should fail. (This is essentially what IDLE is trying to do.)
If you are missing write permission on your home directory, you *should* be
able to fix it by doing:
chmod u+w ~
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