For 3.6.0a2, when attempting to launch IDLE.app on OS X (for example, by double-clicking the IDLE icon in the "/Applications/Python 3.6" folder), IDLE does not launch. In the system.log there will be a log message similar to: (org.python.IDLE.917792[45897]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1 The problem is that the glue code (idlemain.py) used to launch IDLE from within the IDLE app bundle is trying to import macosxSupport which has been renamed as of 3.6.0a2. However, there is no longer any reason for the app bundle to import this module: this is vestigial code that I should have removed some releases ago when I refactored macosxSupport. It hasn't hurt up until now. As a workaround for 3.6.0a2, you can launch IDLE from a terminal command line: /usr/local/bin/idle3.6 or you *could* carefully msnuslly edit the file /Applications/Python 3.6/IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlemain.py to remove the two lines near the end: from idlelib import macosxSupport macosxSupport._appbundle = True Fix for 3.6.0a3 to follow.

New changeset 675569bee37f by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': Issue #27310: remove vestigial import in IDLE.app https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/675569bee37f New changeset 0cf4bda2882c by Ned Deily in branch '3.5': Issue #27310: remove vestigial import in IDLE.app https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0cf4bda2882c New changeset 9ba934d159e3 by Ned Deily in branch 'default': Issue #27310: Fix IDLE.app failure to launch on OS X due to vestigial import. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9ba934d159e3