I used IDLE extensively in the first edition of "Head First Python". For the second edition (which is now very, very late - but that's another story), I took the time to take a look at a bunch of other Python IDEs and, after working with a lot of them, have ended up coming back to IDLE (and have continued to use it in the second edition of my book). IDLE has recently received some development love (helped, I think, by all the activity around 3.4), which has improved some of its stability and usage issues, and it is still the best tool (IMHO) when introducing students to Python for the first time.
Those who continue the labor of love which helps to improve IDLE are to be commended. The Python world would be a much poorer place if IDLE wasn't part of it. Paul. On 9 February 2014 09:33, Vatroslav Suton <vatroslavsu...@aim.com> wrote: > porting python to javascript, np > Vatroslav Suton > vatroslavsu...@aim.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Bruce Sherwood <bruce_sherw...@ncsu.edu> > To: Sean Felipe Wolfe <ether....@gmail.com> > Cc: sforman <sfor...@hushmail.com>; idle <idle-dev@python.org>; Guido van > Rossum <gu...@python.org> > Sent: Sat, Feb 8, 2014 9:36 am > Subject: Re: [Idle-dev] The Future of Python > > I'll mention that for my own purposes, and those of my students, the > interpreter prompt is of absolutely no interest whatsoever. All of our work > is done at the program level, in the editor, not at the interpreter prompt. > For us the Python Shell is used only for print() output. So I don't care > what bells and whistles are added to the Python Shell to suit the needs of > experts. > > Bruce > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing > listIDLE-dev@python.orghttps://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > IDLE-dev mailing list > IDLE-dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev > > -- Paul Barry, w: http://paulbarry.itcarlow.ie - e: paul.ba...@itcarlow.ie Lecturer, Computer Networking: Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland.
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