Mitchell,
I can't find the string ".Idle.py" in trunk. If you haven't already,
please open a documentation issue for this one. I don't see any
obvious downside to this behavior and people might be relying on it by
now.
Thanks for reporting these IDLE issues!
Daniel
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I was trying to disentangle some IDLE behavior today and discovered
that If the user has a .Idle.py file IDLE will run it when it starts
up. This is independent of running IDLESTARTUP or PYTHONSTARTUP when
the -s switch is given. It is run by Tk.readprofile as called from
Tk.__init__. The "Idle
