[Python-Dev] Simple IDLE issues to commit before Python 2.7.4 release in two weeks on 4/6/2013 (original) (raw)

Todd Rovito rovitotv at gmail.com
Mon Mar 25 20:30:59 CET 2013

Python 2.7.4 release candidate was just announced and is ready for testing here: http://python.org/download/releases/2.7.4/

Now the clock is ticking and we have two weeks to get IDLE issues pushed into CPython before the final release of 2.7.4. Below is my list of low risk issues that would be great to get pushed into CPython. I hope this email will encourage CPython Core Developers to make the commits or tell us what we can do, like more testing or better documentation, to get these issues cleaned up and committed before 2.7.4 ships. PEP-434 is still being discussed, I asked PEP authors to post latest version on 3/24, but I think most folks agree with the principle. IDLE might have more issues that could be fixed easily so feel free to add to the list. Thanks for everybody’s hard work to make IDLE better!!!!! http://bugs.python.org/issue7136 Idle File Menu Option Improvement http://bugs.python.org/issue17390 display python version on idle title bar http://bugs.python.org/issue17511 Idle find function closes after each find operation http://bugs.python.org/issue6699 IDLE: Warn user about overwriting a file that has a newer version on filesystem http://bugs.python.org/issue10747 Include version info in Windows shortcuts the issue is for 3.x but perhaps simple to implement for 2.7?

The issue below has been talked about in the recent past on idle-dev (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/idle-dev/2013-March/003228.html) it will take some work to get committed because of the deletion of the Option menu on the Mac. But even if it gets committed then is disabled for the Mac with a simple sys.platform it would be a huge victory for IDLE in my mind. http://bugs.python.org/issue2704 IDLE: Patch to make PyShell behave more like a Terminal interface

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