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

Devin Jeanpierre jeanpierreda at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 07:54:01 CET 2013

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

I think being frozen in the late 1990s is better than being frozen in the early 1980s, like Command Prompt is. In fact, I think we should 'deprecate' the Command Prompt interpreter as the standard interactive interpreter and finish polishing and de-glitching IDLE's Python Shell, which runs on top of the windowless version of CP with a true GUI. Then we can promote and present the latter as the preferred interface, which for many people, it already is.

Please don't cease supporting the command line interface. I use the command line interactive interpreter plenty. That way I can use git, grep, the unit test suite, etc. ... and the interactive interpreter, all from one place: the console.

That can't happen with IDLE, by design.

-- Devin

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