[Python-Dev] IDLE in the stdlib (original) (raw)

Mark Janssen dreamingforward at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 04:03:28 CET 2013

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Raymond Hettinger < raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: Right. Ultimately, I think IDLE should be a separate project entirely, but I guess there's push back against that too.

The most important feature of IDLE is that it ships with the standard library. Everyone who clicks on the Windows MSI on the python.org webpage automatically has IDLE. That is why I frequently teach Python with IDLE. If this thread results in IDLE being ripped out of the standard distribution, then I would likely never use it again. +1, FWIW

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