On 2/2/2011 4:58 PM, Robert wrote:
It was suggested in another Python newsgroup that IDLE has flaws. Yes, I know, hard to believe that software has flaws, however, out of that was born a desire to clean up the code cruft etc. in IDLE.

Two things that came out generally were:

* Update the UI (use ttk widgets etc.)
* More tests and automate testing
* Clean up the code

What else would you like to see? I was said that Python (and IDLE) are going to Mercurial at some point, so maybe that would be a good time to start the effort.

It will be a bit for me. I have some learning to do before I try and tackle this. I think it would be a good way for me to continue to learn about Python, unit testing, UI design and code refactoring.

Quite a bit of learning for me as well! Mostly it's just that I've never done much with ttk or testing, but I'm glad to learn.


So chime in with your suggestions!
I think that is quite the list already. After we (whoever we may be) get that list done, we can think of other things.

Thought: Should this just be an effort for IDLE in P3 going forward so that focus can be had?
Considering that all non-bugfix changes aren't being accepted for Python 2, this would be strictly Python 3.


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