Thanks for expressing your opinions on this, Guido, André and Jeremy, and I'm happy that you all are in support!
On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 6:58 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > In issue 37903, RH appears to be requiring support for doctests. > (Interestingly, in issue 7676 he wishes the IDLE shell wouldn't use tabs, > which you're going to support.) I'm a little confused by his comments about > doctests. IMO copying from a "doctest" in the docs to the shell is not > affected -- the problem there is purely that you have to work hard to avoid > also copying the ">>>" and (especially) "..." prompts into the shell. That > seems to me to be the main thing people would do with doctests, and it's > unaffected. It's true that recreating a doctest from an IDLE shell session > is a little harder -- but a nice fallback is to use the python binary > itself, which has the exact behavior you'd want. So I don't see this as a > reason not to backport. (This also seems pretty niche. I don't know if he > can back up his claim that doctests have become more popular.) > My reading of Raymond's comment related to doctests was also that he was worried about losing the ability to create doctests simply by copy/pasting from an IDLE shell session. ISTM that moving the prompts to a side-bar would make it only slightly more difficult, though perhaps significantly difficult for novices. If this becomes a common request we could simply add a "copy for doctest" context menu option - I'd be happy to implement that myself. - Tal
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