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-rw-r--r--Lib/idlelib/__main__.py9
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS2
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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