On 01/11/17 17:57, Paul Simon wrote: > Thank you all very much. All is working fine now. I had always assumed > that Idle and pip were installed with the standard library and not have > to be separately installed.
The Linux philosophy is that the user gets to choose so there should be no bloatware on your system. But if you choose to use something it should be esy to install - via the package manager. Many Linux distros use Python internally so the most basic Python installation is usually present but not necessarily the latest version, just the one needed to ru the tools. And IDLE is not needed for that so is usually an extra. By contrast the Windows philosophy is the user gets everything whether they need it or not and if the PC can't handle that then buy a new PC. Its easy but expensive. -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
