[Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library (original) (raw)

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Sun Jul 11 21:47:30 CEST 2010


On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:22:28PM +0300, Tal Einat wrote:

Initially (five years ago!) I tried to overcome these issues by improving IDLE, solving problems and adding a few key features. Without going into details, suffice to say that IDLE hasn't improved much since 2005 despite my efforts. For example, see

Is it maybe time for another idle-fork project to develop IDLE outside the stdlib for a while, and then the forked version could be swallowed wholesale by the Python 3.2 release?

--amk



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