On Dec 25, 9:27 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Rick Johnson > > [...] > Conversely, why write an IDE into IDLE when perfectly-good IDEs > already exist? I don't use IDLE for development per se; it's for > interactive Python execution, but not editing of source files.
I believe the answer is two fold: 1. Including an IDE like IDLE into the Python distro helps noobs to get started quickly without needing to traverse a gauntlet of unknown IDEs on their own. If later they find something that they feel is more appropriate; so be it. 2. (and most important to me... IDLE is written in Python using the Tkinter GUI (which ships with python also). Therefore, the source code for IDLE can be a GREAT teaching resource for how to write professional Tkinter applications. I KNOW THE CURRENT SOURCE SUCKS! However, we could change that. So, with those points being covered, i believe IDLE is very important to the Python community and could be useful to more people IF we clean it up a bit. It's really a great little IDE with even greater potential. If Guido would just say something (or at least some of the top Pythionistas (Hettinger i am looking at you!)) this community might work together to fix this problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list