On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Mark Summerfield <l...@qtrac.plus.com> wrote: > On 2009-03-23, Guilherme Polo wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> > Guilherme Polo wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> >>> IDLE needs lots of attention -- more than any one experienced person is >> >>> likely to have >> >> >> >> I'm willing to step up as a student for this but I still have to write >> >> a good proposal for it. >> >> My actual concern is about mentor availability, is someone around >> >> interested on being an IDLE mentor ? >> > >> > If I could, I would, and would have said so. But I have only read about >> > tk and have not actually used it. If I did decide to dive into it, you'd >> > be mentoring me ;-). What I can and would do is give ideas for changes, >> > read and comment on a proposal, and user test patched versions. >> >> That is very nice Terry. Do you have some specific ideas that you want >> to share publicly (or in private) about IDLE ? Your expectations about >> what should be addressed first, or areas that should be improved.. you >> know, anything. > > I have one suggestion that I think might be widely appreciated: > > Add somewhere in the configuration dialog when users can enter a block > of Python code to be executed at startup and whenever Restart Shell is > executed. > > Use case: for people who use IDLE for calculations/experiments they > might like to always have certain module imported. For me personally, it > would be: > > import os > import re > import sys > from math import * > > but of course the whole point is that people can write any code they > like. (Some people might want to do various from __future__ imports in > Python 2.6 to get various Python 3 features for example.) > > I know that you can use the -c option, but that only works at startup, > not every time you Restart Shell. >
Looks like a good suggestion to me, Mark. I would recommend adding it as a feature request on the typical place (bugs.python.org) because although I could just go and do it, I believe you are aware that new features in IDLE are subject to approval or disapproval by other members involved with IDLE. Hope you understand my position. > [snip] > > -- > Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu > C++, Python, Qt, PyQt - training and consultancy > "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" - ISBN 0132354187 > > Regards, -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
