Issue 775061: 2 problems with IDLE (original) (raw)

Created on 2003-07-21 15:08 by nnorwitz, last changed 2022-04-10 16:10 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (7)
msg17173 - (view)	Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) *	Date: 2003-07-21 15:08
Lib/idlelib/idle.py should use #!/usr/bin/env python not /usr/bin/python so the user can modify their path to execute the correct version of python. In Lib/idlelib/rpc.py around line 623, svr.register (svr is an RPCServer instance) is called, but there is no register method AFAICT.
msg17174 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2003-07-21 22:43
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 I fail to see the first problem. Shouldn't distutils replace the path in #! with sys.exec_prefix? /usr/bin/env should *not* be used, as this might be a different python than the one IDLE was installed for.
msg17175 - (view)	Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) *	Date: 2003-07-22 02:19
Logged In: YES user_id=33168 Hmmm, I do remember something about distutils rewriting the line, but I'm not sure. My problem was that I was running an uninstalled version in the CVS tree: ./Lib/idlelib/idle Perhaps this isn't a bug. RPCServer still appears to be a problem either way.
msg17176 - (view)	Author: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) *	Date: 2003-09-05 23:13
Logged In: YES user_id=149084 I use (from the idlelib dir): ../../python ./PyShell.py to start an uninstalled IDLE for testing. There is a more elaborate idle.py in IDLEfork which allows starting an uninstalled IDLEfork from anywhere in the file system. Maybe something like that would be useful to someone? It's not useful to me, I either use the above, or call my installed version (which is the latest official release) from outside that directory. There is always an installed IDLE now. I recommend removing the idle script from idlelib, since it is actually installed from Tools/scripts. The files there uniformly start with #! /usr/bin/env python. Exceptions: gprof2html.py, parseentities.py Without objection, I'm going to remove idlelib/idle. As far as the RPCServer issue goes, this is defunct test code. I'll comment it out for now. A proper unit test of the rpc.py module is needed.
msg17177 - (view)	Author: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) *	Date: 2003-09-06 02:04
Logged In: YES user_id=149084 My idea on how to resolve this: remove the "idle" script from idlelib and remove the shebang from idlelib/idle.py so it has to be called explicitly. Any objections?
msg17178 - (view)	Author: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz) *	Date: 2003-09-06 02:10
Logged In: YES user_id=33168 No objection from me.
msg17179 - (view)	Author: Kurt B. Kaiser (kbk) *	Date: 2003-09-10 02:46
Logged In: YES user_id=149084 idle.py 1.11 rpc.py 1.27 removed "idle" script idle.py actually has the functionality to start IDLE from any location even when python is not installed: /python /Lib/idlelib/idle.py