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On 07/03/2014 10:03 AM, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
> On 07/03/2014 06:09 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
> - what is happening to the stderr output when run in IDLE ? I guess it
> is caught and suppressed somewhere, but to add to your observations the
> check_output call doesn't hang on IDLE, but finishes eventually with no
> output other than the traceback.

stderr output not being displayed in IDLE is mentioned in 
http://bugs.python.org/issue13582 .