On 11 Jul, 2010, at 19:35, Bill Janssen wrote: > Tal Einat <talei...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Although several people say that they think having IDLE in the stdlib >> is important, the fact is that IDLE is considered quite unimportant by >> most of the Python community. Having IDLE in the stdlib may be >> convenient for a few people, but most never use it and don't care >> about it. I think that in its current state, IDLE may still be helpful >> for learning Python, but it is more likely to drive away users who run >> into its various quirks and problems. And for experienced Python >> developers, very few actually use IDLE, and those who do could easily >> install it if it weren't part of the stdlib. > > I agree with you on this, Tal. On OS X, this is particularly > aggravating, as the Apple-supplied Python doesn't seem to include a > working version, and installing MacPython leads to other problems (see, > for instance, the thread at > http://groups.google.com/group/nltk-users/browse_thread/thread/e14b647243ca5b66).
Apple doesn't ship IDLE.app, but does ship the rest of the code. It should be fairly easy to create a small IDLE.app using the python.org source tree that uses /usr/bin/python. Ronald
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