2010/7/10 Miki Tebeka <miki.teb...@gmail.com>: > Hello Tal, > >> I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. > -1. > One of the biggest "selling points" for me when switching to python was the > "out of the box" working IDE with REPL, syntax highliting and a debugger. > The only other candidate I think of to replace IDLE might be IPython. However > for novice users who are not used to command line it might be too > intimidating. > > There are my others IDEs out there, some better some worse. However IMO > to have one bundled with Python is highly important. > >> Cross-platform support has degraded with the increasing popularity of OSX >> and 64-bit >> platforms. > I use IDLE on Ubuntu 64bit and before that on OS X 64 bit, never had a > problem. Can you give > some examples on what do you mean by "cross-platform support"? >
By "never had a problem" do you mean using some of the latest versions ? Here, running "idle" from a mac terminal and trying to type: print "hi" crashes when entering the quotation mark. I'm mostly sure this has been fixed on versions newer than 2.6.1 (but I hope you agree with me that shouldn't happen with a version distributed on macosx), so my another example is in the form of a question: how functional is the current IDLE debugger when running on a Mac ? -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
