bpo-38077: IDLE no longer adds 'argv' to the user namespace (GH-15818)

This only happened when initializing the subprocess to run a module.
This recent bug only affected 3.7.4 and 3.8.0b2 to 3.8.0b4.
(cherry picked from commit c59295a)

Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt

@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ Released on 2019-10-20?
 ======================================
 
 
+bpo-38077: IDLE no longer adds 'argv' to the user namespace when
+initializing it.  This bug only affected 3.7.4 and 3.8.0b2 to 3.8.0b4.
+
 bpo-38401: Shell restart lines now fill the window width, always start
 with '=', and avoid wrapping unnecessarily. The line will still wrap
 if the included file name is long relative to the width.

Lib/idlelib/runscript.py

@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ def _run_module_event(self, event, *, customize=False):
                 _sys.argv = argv
             import os as _os
             _os.chdir({dirname!r})
-            del _sys, _basename, _os
+            del _sys, argv, _basename, _os
             \n""")
         interp.prepend_syspath(filename)
         # XXX KBK 03Jul04 When run w/o subprocess, runtime warnings still

Misc/NEWS.d/next/IDLE/2019-09-09-22-08-36.bpo-38077.Mzpfe2.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+IDLE no longer adds 'argv' to the user namespace when initializing it.  This
+bug only affected 3.7.4 and 3.8.0b2 to 3.8.0b4.