On 14/06/12 22:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
Doing what the standard interpreter does
The standard interpreter on Windows puts fixed-pixel width prompts (not
so important, but not completely unimportant either) in a separate
fixed-width column (critical) to the left
I'm not sure wyhat you mean. The standard prompt I meant was the vanilla
interpreter whivch, onm Windows, runs in a terminal window(aka DOS box)
and has the usual >>> and ... prompts.
Are you referring to the Pythonwin GUI or something else?
The question is whether this is possible with tk.
Sure just add a (read only) text box down the side of the editing pane.
But its a bit of a pig keeping the prompt in the right position wrt the
editing pane.
>>> and consequently the first indent may not look like an indent.
Indeed, with Lucida Sans Unicode, '... ' is *shorter* than '>>> ',
so that the first indent is visually a dedent! This is not acceptible.
But better than the current situation with no secondary prompt - at
least you can see that there is some kind of indent wrt the prompt.
But in Python anyone who uses non mono-spaced fonts for coding is asking
for trouble IMHO!
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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
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