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

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Mon Jul 12 10:06:38 CEST 2010

-On [20100712 08:26], Stephen Hansen (apt.shansen at gmail.com) wrote:

But I, personally, would consider it a significant loss if IDLE went the way of the dodo or a third-party module. 

Why would it be a significant loss if it went the way of a third party module? Clearly right now it's not being maintained as well as the rest of Python. Maybe that's a clear indicator that it's better maintained externally instead of in the main tree.

And for what it is worth, I personally never used it beyond one time looking at it in disgust and neither do I know Pythonistas around me that use it. Bpython and ipython do get installed a lot though, even on Windows. And all these people, no matter their proficiency in programming, use an editor or IDE of some sort, but not IDLE.

So I would not mourn to see IDLE get moved out of the main repository as I do not see the added value or benefit, not even for training (and since you're going to set up a training environment anyway, it can only be described as lazy if you are adamant on having it included in the base distribution).

Just my EUR 0,02.

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