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authorAndrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>2012-03-26 22:11:46 +0300
committerAndrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>2012-03-26 22:11:46 +0300
commitd543f2b8b0b66af330aae6764e53495cda48fd4e (patch)
tree649c09d1813846d425b69c02b667aa4248f8ad81
parent753445a425fba3e73d9eb15f10829a194da8b7fe (diff)
downloadcpython-git-d543f2b8b0b66af330aae6764e53495cda48fd4e.tar.gz
IDLE can be launched as python -m ildelib
-rw-r--r--Lib/idlelib/__main__.py9
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/__main__.py b/Lib/idlelib/__main__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0666f2fd1b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/__main__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+"""
+IDLE main entry point
+
+Run IDLE as python -m idlelib
+"""
+
+
+import idlelib.PyShell
+idlelib.PyShell.main()
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index df13d40e63..0c01755e4f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ Core and Builtins
Library
-------
+- IDLE can be launched as python -m ildelib
+
- Issue #14295: Add unittest.mock
- Issue #7652: Add --with-system-libmpdec option to configure for linking