import os.path import sys # If we are working on a development version of IDLE, we need to prepend the # parent of this idlelib dir to sys.path. Otherwise, importing idlelib gets # the version installed with the Python used to call this module: idlelib_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))) sys.path.insert(0, idlelib_dir) import idlelib.PyShell idlelib.PyShell.main()