On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> As a user of Idle for several years, and not a beginner, I disagree with > 'only'. That aside, I consider it unnecessary and diversionary from the > numerous known issues that will benefit *everyone*. > I was worried that you'd respond like this. *No* change to IDLE will benefit *everyone*, for the simple reason that few people outside the (non-higher) educational field use it. IDLE should not try to compete with things like PyCharm, nor with the Emacs/Vim world (and I consider most every text editor professional coders like to use these days on Linux/Mac/Windows to be in that world, from Sublime Text to Atom). IDLE's one redeeming feature is that it's bundled with Python, and this is a benefit mostly for classrooms where Python is taught as the first text-based programming language after e.g. Scratch. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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