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diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/run.py b/Lib/idlelib/run.py
index d105912..88da23b 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/run.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/run.py
@@ -297,6 +297,11 @@ class MyHandler(rpc.RPCHandler):
# page help() text to shell.
import pydoc # import must be done here to capture i/o binding
pydoc.pager = pydoc.plainpager
+
+ # Keep a reference to stdin so that it won't try to exit IDLE if
+ # sys.stdin gets changed from within IDLE's shell. See issue17838.
+ self._keep_stdin = sys.stdin
+
self.interp = self.get_remote_proxy("interp")
rpc.RPCHandler.getresponse(self, myseq=None, wait=0.05)