On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 11:36 PM Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> On 6/19/2021 5:36 PM, André Roberge wrote: > > > >>> from friendly.idle import * > > I hope you document the alternative for anyone wanting to isolate f.i > functions: `import friendly.idle as fi` or > `from friendly import idle as fi`. > > Documenting this is on my list of things to do. I already have had similar feedback from another instructor who uses it with the Jupyter module. The reason I usually write "import *" is that I view the functions why(), what(), where(), etc., like they are additional builtins available in an interactive session. (They are not added to the builtins module.) > In any case, fi executes in the user process. Do you use the rpc > connection to query linecache in the IDLE process? > Yes, I do. > > > On the issue, I suggested de-serializing the original rather than > recompiling. > It would make sense, if I knew how to access the information using rpc. For SyntaxErrors and subclasses, all I need for the analysis are the Exception argument (message, offset, lineno, etc.) and the entire offending code. André
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