On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Katie Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any way that we can get this functionality into a 2.7 build > as well? Most of the books out there for teaching Python (for ill or > good) are still under 2.7+. That change sounds great, though! I'll > have to check it out on my other machines. I have Mint 11 and Windows > 7 / 8 rolling around here. I'll get my Ubuntu updated as well. I just tested the patch on 2.7 with Mac OS X and it works great with no changes. Testing on Windows would be a big help because I try to stay away from Windows as I am a Unix super freak. I do have Windows but it makes me shudder just to boot it up :-) Additionally I will add to the patch changes needed to update the documentation. The Python 3.4 documentation for IDLE is now synced for the time being between the IDLE's web page and IDLE's help file but that is not the case for Python 2.7 :-( All we can do is upload the patch and test it on all the major platforms but actually convincing a Python core developer to make the commit is always the challenge especially with Python 2.7 because generally it only gets bug fixes. Terry Reedy and I created PEP-434 (Python Enhancement Proposal) in an attempt to get "Enhancement Exception for All Branches" for IDLE. I feel like the PEP is close to approval. Please feel free to provide feedback on PEP-434!!!! PEP-434 is here: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0434/
We updated PEP-434 recently to reflect some comments from this thread and another thread about IDLE on Python-dev so watch for updates. > I've had a few designers/UX people contact me about wanting to pitch > in and take a look at the interface (Julia Elman and Kenneth Love). > Not bad for a tweet late on a Friday! The more help the better that is for sure!!!! I especially have no designer/UX skills so I would appreciate it the help. Thanks! _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
