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I went ahead and turned this into Python code and called
"execvp", passing the command arguments onto the idle call.
 This way there are no worries about how the shell handles
$* expansion.  The current CVS version results in something
looking like:

#!/usr/bin/env python2.4
import os, sys
os.execvp("/usr/bin/python2.4", ["/usr/bin/python2.4",
"/usr/lib/python2.4/idlelib/idle.py"] + sys.argv[1:])
print "Failed to exec Idle"
sys.exit(1)

(assuming default build settings)