On the notion that IDLE is fatally flawed and is driving away potential users of Python (to put the statements in their most extreme form):
It seems that there are (at least) two very different communities people have in mind. I can appreciate that highly expert programmers may find IDLE insufficient for their needs, and it might even be the case that these people should be advised not to even try IDLE. But I want to stress as strongly as possible that for a very large community of nonexpert users of Python, IDLE has been extremely important and works very well for their purposes. Editing is pretty much like what they're already used to in word processors, which is certainly not the case with professional tools such as vim or Emacs. That said, yes, there are some significant deficiencies with the current IDLE (which is why there's a VIDLE, for instance). I'm very glad to hear from Martin that Guilherme is free to commit his important bug fixes and improvements. I'm afraid that neither Guilherme nor I understood the procedures and thought that we had to wait for others to act. Bruce Sherwood
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