On Mon, Jul 12 2010, Bruce Sherwood wrote: > I don't recall that VIDLE has anything to do with running multiple IDLE > copies.
Well, I stole the ephemeral port idea from him! > What's in VIDLE is a lot of bug fixes and some improvements. For > example, you can configure it to not require having to save a file, > which makes it as easy to use for quick testing as the shell. Another > improvement, of high importance for our physics students and other > novice programmers, is to bring an error display forward. Many > students fill the screen with the edit window and the error message > could be hidden, leaving them puzzled as to why their program wasn't > running. Stuff like that, all aimed at issues we had seen with a large > population of science and engineering students. > > I'll say again that IDLE/VIDLE is an excellent environment for novices. > Issues identified here about look and feel etc. have just not been of any > importance in that context. > I'd like to get all that incorporated so you can go back to dealing directly with us. Your students are the people we want to reach! > If you'll send me what you want from Scherer, I can contact him. I'm copying our PSF Secretary/Administrator, Pat Campbell. She can work with you to get David Scherer's Contributor Agreement. We really appreciate your assistance with this, he's one of the last missing agreements. -- KBK _______________________________________________ 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