[Python-Dev] IDLEfork Re-integration into Python (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:47:13 +0200

Jack Jansen wrote:

> No, but... What advantage would be gained by a deeper nesting?

Uhm... Nothing really:-) except that everything that depends on Tkinter is in there, I thought this was by design (so you can remove it if you aren't interested in Tkinter).

Well, much of Idle depends in Tk, but not everything. There is quite some good stuff in there that is either directly useful for other IDE writers, or at least have the potential to be refactored to that effect.

(That said, if Idle ends up in Lib/, it should really be a package since it contains quite a few modules with rather generic names; but I assume that's indeed the plan, given the comment in IdleFork's init.py file.)

Just