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Author ned.deily
Recipients dd789, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, terry.reedy
Date 2020-03-11.07:12:34
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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 IDLE :)
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