Stephen Hansen <apt.shan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: > > > Stephen Hansen wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Guilherme Polo <ggp...@gmail.com > > > <mailto:ggp...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > > > By "never had a problem" do you mean using some of the latest > > versions > > > ? Here, running "idle" from a mac terminal and trying to type: print > > > "hi" crashes when entering the quotation mark. > > > > > > > > > Huh? Works fine for me. Python 2.6.1, OSX 10.6.3, intel. > > > > > One of the good things about the python-dev community is its commitment > > to test-driven development. If you are prepared to define "fine" as > > 'successfully runs \'print "hello"\'' then I guess we should be > > perfectly happy about IDLE. > > > > Er, how hostile. > > My point is, the poster made an assertion-- that you couldn't do the simple > act as launching idle from a command line, and printing Hi. Maybe they > can't, I have no idea. > > I know I can. I know that I have also opened random python files, saved > them, and ran them with IDLE. I don't use IDLE beyond that though: I live in > TextMate on my mac. > > My point was not, "IDLE is perfect". My point was, "You've claimed you can't > even print out a word in IDLE, so its utterly and completely non-functional" > -- and that assertion surprises me and I challenge.
Steve, you encouraged me to try it again. From an xterm on OS X 10.5.8, it launches fine (long as you know where it is -- /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/idle). Seems to work OK for what it is, too. Same for Terminal. When I start it from the *shell* buffer in Cocoa GNU Emacs, though, the idle window pops up under the Emacs window, which is why I didn't see it over the weekend. Bill _______________________________________________ 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
