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see the following:
lac@smartwheels:\~/junk$ echo "print ('hello there')" >string.py
lac@smartwheels:\~/junk$ idle-python3.5
hello there
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/idlelib/run.py", line 10, in
from idlelib import CallTips
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/idlelib/CallTips.py", line 16, in
from idlelib.HyperParser import HyperParser
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/idlelib/HyperParser.py", line 14, in
\_ASCII\_ID\_CHARS = frozenset(string.ascii\_letters + string.digits + "\_")
AttributeError: module 'string' has no attribute 'ascii\_letters'

IDLE then produces a popup that says:

IDLE's subprocess didn't make connection. Either IDLE can't stat a subprocess por personal firewall software is blocking the connection.

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I think that life would be a whole lot easier for people if instead we got
a message:

Warning: local file /u/lac/junk/string.py shadows module named string in the
Standard Library

I think that it is python exec that would have to do this -- though of
course the popup could also warn about shadowing in general, instead of
sending people on wild goose chases over their firewalls.

Would this be hard to do?