New submission from Jarrod Petz:
It seems IDEL is setting the environment variable 'HOME' on windows.
Specifically I am on windows 8.1
This is extremly annoying and bad as according the code and doco,
os.path.expanduser will preference this variable above others such as
USERPROF
Jarrod Petz added the comment:
It also makes things none deterministic. As when I am off the domain or my
network drive H:\ is unavailable it works and uses USERPROFILE.
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Python tracker
<http://bugs.python.org/issue27
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
Jarrod Petz added the comment:
eryksun, now I understand this is a bit more challenging because tkinter is the
underlying library doing this and it is shared by other apps.
Though I still don't feel that just because its been like this since 1995 means
it should stay this way. Th
