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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Mar 21 11:32:46 CET 2013

On 3/21/2013 5:27 AM, Paul Moore wrote:

Can I suggest that debates about the capability of Windows command line programming are off-topic here?

I respectfully disagree, unless you say that the whole thread is off topic. If it is okay for people to say that IDLE, including the IDLE interactive interpreter shell is ugly, quirky, broken, badly maintained, and disfunctional, without giving hardly any facts or details to back up or explain the claims, and then claim it is so bad that it should be banished, then to me it is perfectly on topic for me to point out that the alternative, the CP shell, is objectively far worse in multiple respects. Yes, I gave some facts for the benefit of those who were willing to consider my claim that IDLE is better.

it is what Windows users who use the command line are used to.

I bet that 'Windows users who use the command line' are less than 10% of Windows users.

I am willing to accept that you find it adequate. Why can't you accept that I find it wretched, especially when I explained some of why rather than just throwing it out as an opinion, and consider IDLE to be wonderfully better?

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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