Hi Bill, On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>> I am one of those too, of course, but I do know a lot of Mac users >> who spend most of their time in applications like Photoshop, >> Dreamweaver, BBEdit, etc. and rarely venture towards the Terminal. >> Not quite the same audience, but at least some of them would be >> potential Python users by way of appscript or web development tools. > > Sure, that make perfect sense. > >>> But my point was simply that it seems hard to be a Mac user these >>> days >>> without some basic use of the Terminal. >> >> That's not true at all. > > OK, I'm probably the wrong person to assess that. > > So it seems that a old Unix-style Python program which reads from > stdin (or a file or a tty) and writes to stdout would be difficult to > explain to someone who has never used a command line. And there's > essentially no way to get Idle started without using a command line. What about an app bundle that just starts IDLE? Kevin > Bill > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
