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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Mar 21 21:38:41 CET 2013

Am 21.03.2013 19:13, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:57:54 -0700 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. Which says a lot about its usefulness, if the only reason you use it is that it's bundled with the standard distribution.

Just like a lot of the stdlib, it gets a lot of usefulness from being a battery. But just because there are better/more comprehensive/prettier replacements out there is not reason enough to remove standard libraries.

Georg

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