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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Jul 14 19:32:21 CEST 2010

On 7/14/2010 2:35 AM, Giampaolo Rodolà wrote:

One of the main problems with IDLE is the lack of tabs for editing multiple files within the same window. Having that alone would be a great improvement.

Yes, the same as tabs for browsing was.

This is firstly an unlying gui widget set issue. Tk does not, as far as I know, have a tabbed document widget. Ttk has a new Notebook widget, with tabs.

The second issue is whether, starting with 3.2, IDLE can require the availability of ttk, meaning tcl/tk 8.5+ or the Tile add-on. I opened http://bugs.python.org/issue9262

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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