New submission from Bruce Sherwood <bruce.sherw...@gmail.com>: It is proposed to incorporate the work of Guilherme Polo in the 2009 Google Summer of Code into idlelib. Polo's enhancements have been extensively tested for a year through being included with VPython.
Here is a description from NEWS.txt: In December 2008 David Scherer created an alternative version of IDLE to fix some long-standing problems. In the 2009 Google Summer of Code Guilherme Polo continued this work, assisted by Bruce Sherwood. Important new fixes and features include: * A configuration preference that permits writing and running test programs from the editor without having to save the file (you're warned upon quitting whether to save). * Bringing the shell window forward in case of an error (because novices often failed to realize why their program had stopped). * A revert plug-in (FileRevert.py). * Unreliable and slow termination of user program on Windows; now you can re-run without first closing the graphics window. * Missing preferences and other menus on Macintosh. * Use any port for RPC server, so multiple instances of VIDLE can run at the same time without interference. Polo submitted patches at the end of the summer of 2009, found at code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2009-python/downloads/list This was for the Python 2.X series. Because the mechanism was not clear for getting these patches into the version of IDLE distributed with Python, the patched version has been distributed with VPython (vpython.org) with the name VIDLE to attempt to avoid confusion with IDLE. It is installed into site-packages. In October 2010 Bruce Sherwood manually applied Polo's patches to the idlelib found at svn.python.org/projects/python/tags/r312/Lib/idlelib In addition to applying Polo's patches, the new code uses the new dot addressing of modules (e.g. from . import PyShell). Except for having to change one absolute address in the use of __import__ in PyShell.py, this version can work either in Python31/Lib/idlelib or in Python31/Lib/site-packages/vidle. This VIDLE will be included in the installer for VPython for Python 3. ---------- components: IDLE files: vidle20101012.diff keywords: patch messages: 118501 nosy: Bruce.Sherwood priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: idlelib for Python 3 with Guilherme Polo GSoC enhancements type: feature request versions: Python 3.1 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file19211/vidle20101012.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10079> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
