In a message of 14 Jun 2015 01:59:10 +0000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:09:48 -0700, C.D. Reimer wrote: > >> On 6/13/2015 1:59 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: >>> Idle is written in pure python. Steal from: >>> https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/74d182cf0187/Lib/idlelib/ >GrepDialog.py >>> if you do not have a copy locally. >> >> I've been using Notepad++ (Windows) and TextWrangler (Mac) for over a >> decade now. Idle may be pure Python, but that's not enough for me to >> switch. :) > > >You don't have to switch for good. You can fire up IDLE to do this one >job, then never use it again. >
Or my idea was, if his plan was to write a script to grep through his files, he could just go out and steal the code that comes with idle where it is already written for him. Of course, by now he may have already written one ... Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
