[Python-Dev] IDLE in the stdlib (original) (raw)
Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 14:31:29 CET 2013
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
Paul Moore writes:
> I have no figures one way or the other on that. You may well be > right. Are we aiming at "all Windows users" here? We need to be careful about this. ISTM that IDLE is aiming at the subset of users on any platform who for some reason need/want a simple development environment that is consistent across Python versions and platforms and immediately available when they install Python, but don't have one yet.
When I'm on Windows, I use IDLE as my interactive interpreter, but SciTE for actual development. Even on Linux, there's one feature that CLI interactive mode lacks: multi-line command recall. To tinker with a function definition in IDLE, just recall it and edit it. To tinker with it in command-line Python, fetch back each of its lines, or edit it elsewhere and paste it. IDLE isn't a program editor for me, it's the face of Python.
ChrisA
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