I should add that there is in VIDLE one additional file, FileRevert.py, implemented by Guilherme Polo, I believe. Since it is a new file, it doesn't show up in the diff file.
In help.txt is this new comment: Revert -- Discard all changes since the last save Bruce Sherwood On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Bruce Sherwood <bashe...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > I admit to being confused about the status of discussions about moving > IDLE forward. I've made a VIDLE for Python 3, and a patch file for > going from the Python 3 IDLE to the Python 3 VIDLE is available here: > > http://vpython.org/vidle/index.html > > Here are the details (which I added to the VIDLE copy of NEWS.txt): > > In December 2008 David Scherer created an alternative version of IDLE to fix > some long-standing problems. In the 2009 Google Summer of Code Guilherme Polo > continued this work, assisted by Bruce Sherwood. Important new features > include a configuration preference that permits writing and running test > programs from the editor without having to save the file, and bringing the > shell window forward in case of an error (because novices often failed to > realize why their program had stopped). > > Polo submitted patches at the end of the summer of 2009, found here: > http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2009-python/downloads/list > This was for the Python 2.X series. > > Because the mechanism was not clear for getting these patches into the > version of IDLE distributed with Python, the patched version has been > distributed with VPython (vpython.org) with the name VIDLE to attempt to > avoid confusion with IDLE. It is installed into site-packages. > > In September 2010 Bruce Sherwood manually applied Polo's patches to the > version of IDLE distributed with Python 3.1.2, using relative addressing > of modules (e.g. from . import PyShell). Except for having to change one > absolute address in the use of __import__ in PyShell.py, this version > can work either in Python31/Lib/idlelib or in > Python31/Lib/site-packages/vidle. > This Python 3 VIDLE is available at vpython.org and is included in the > Windows installer for VPython for Python 3 (at the time of writing, there > is not yet an installer for Mac or Linux). > > Bruce Sherwood > _______________________________________________ IDLE-dev mailing list IDLE-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
