[Python-Dev] IDLE as default Python editor (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Nov 9 23:10:56 CET 2009

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Ben Finney wrote:

anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> writes:

Quite an interesting question recently popped up in pygame community that I'd like to ask to Python developers. This forum is specifically about development of Python. Anatoly's question is actually a fair one for python-dev - we're the ones that ship Idle, so it is legitimate to ask our reasons for continuing to do so.

But he didn't - instead, he asked how many of us use it. Usage by committers is not (or shouldn't be) a primary criterion for including or not including something. Instead, usage in the community should be, and python-dev is indeed the wrong place to estimate that.

OTOH, the second (or, rather, third) question (does anybody think it should be replaced) is indeed on-topic for python-dev.

I didn't really answer that question before, so I do now: I have not personally plans to replace it, and I'm skeptical wrt. anybody else's plans unless there is specific code in existence that IDLE could be replaced with.

Regards, Martin

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