For what it's worth (maybe not much?), the version of IDLE produced by
Guilherme Polo in the 2009 Google Summer of Code, which VPython (vpython.org)
uses under the name VIDLE, does not have any problem with starting with an
edit window and in fact I always use it that way.

Bruce Sherwood

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Patrick <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> Patrick added the comment:
>
> I am seeing this as well. It does not repro 100% of the time, but
> frequently enough that its hard to get anything done. My repro is a little
> simpler and might help understanding the fix.
>
> Win7
> Python 3.3
>
> I start IDLE normally from the shortcut in the install.
> Ctrl-N to open and edit window.
> Ctrl-O to open a file.
> Select file and then Idle exits.
>
> As mentioned, using the menu to open the file seems to work more reliably.
> I've not had a crash that way.
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