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  r60213 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-23 15:00:25 +0100 (Wed, 23 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Use Py_TYPE() instead of ->ob_type
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  r60214 | armin.rigo | 2008-01-23 15:07:13 +0100 (Wed, 23 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  patch 1754489 by vlahan:
  improve portability of address length calculation for AF_UNIX sockets
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  r60216 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-23 15:20:50 +0100 (Wed, 23 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed bug #1915: Python compiles with --enable-unicode=no again. However several extension methods and modules do not work without unicode support.
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  r60221 | christian.heimes | 2008-01-23 18:15:06 +0100 (Wed, 23 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Applied #1069410
  The "can't load dll" message box on Windows is suppressed while an extension is loaded by calling SetErrorMode in dynload_win.c. The error is still reported properly.
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  r60224 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-23 21:19:01 +0100 (Wed, 23 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix two crashers.
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  r60225 | kurt.kaiser | 2008-01-23 23:19:23 +0100 (Wed, 23 Jan 2008) | 3 lines

  Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows.
  Issue 1743, Issue 1862.
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  r60226 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-23 23:43:27 +0100 (Wed, 23 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Fix misleading comment reported in issue #1917.
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  r60227 | kurt.kaiser | 2008-01-23 23:55:26 +0100 (Wed, 23 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647.
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  r60228 | guido.van.rossum | 2008-01-24 00:23:43 +0100 (Thu, 24 Jan 2008) | 2 lines

  Turn three recently fixed crashers into regular tests.
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  r60229 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-24 01:54:21 +0100 (Thu, 24 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Add first-cut at an approximation function (still needs rounding tweaks).  Add continued fraction conversions.
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  r60230 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-24 03:00:25 +0100 (Thu, 24 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Minor clean-up and more tests.
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  r60231 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-01-24 03:05:06 +0100 (Thu, 24 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Cleanup
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  r60232 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-24 05:14:50 +0100 (Thu, 24 Jan 2008) | 1 line

  Fix the tests by restoring __import__.  I think the test is still valid.
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  r60233 | neal.norwitz | 2008-01-24 08:40:51 +0100 (Thu, 24 Jan 2008) | 4 lines

  Fix the test_urllib2net failures that were caused by r58067.
  I'm not sure this is the correct fix, but at least the test passes
  now and should be closer to correct.
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2 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 12a0c6f..d51d94e 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ What's New in IDLE 2.6a1?
 
 *Release date: XX-XXX-200X*  UNRELEASED, but merged into 3.0
 
+- There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647.
+
+- Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows.
+  Issue 1743, Issue 1862.
+
 - Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding.  Patch 1457 Tal Einat.
 
 - tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py b/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py
index b5d9769..66bad74 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/configHandler.py
@@ -139,7 +139,12 @@ class IdleUserConfParser(IdleConfParser):
 
         """
         if not self.IsEmpty():
-            cfgFile=open(self.file,'w')
+            fname = self.file
+            try:
+                cfgFile = open(fname, 'w')
+            except IOError:
+                fname.unlink()
+                cfgFile = open(fname, 'w')
             self.write(cfgFile)
         else:
             self.RemoveFile()