On 3/21/2013 5:20 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Le Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:42:33 -0400,
Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> a écrit :
On 3/20/2013 11:54 PM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu
Ugly is subjective: by what standard and compared to what?
Compared to other existing Python IDEs and shells which are layered
on top of modern GUI toolkits that are actively developed to keep
with modern standards, unlike Tk which is frozen in the 1990s.
I think being frozen in the late 1990s is better than being frozen in
the early 1980s, like Command Prompt is. In fact, I think we should
'deprecate' the Command Prompt interpreter as the standard
interactive interpreter and finish polishing and de-glitching IDLE's
Python Shell, which runs on top of the windowless version of CP with
a true GUI.
And this may indeed be reasonable under Windows, where the command-line
is a PITA!
Which is the only context I was talking about.
But the Linux command-line is actually quite very usable
these days, especially if you configure your Python interpreter to use
readline for tab-completion of identifiers (which should be done by
default, see http://bugs.python.org/issue5845).
IDLE has tab-completion for both identifiers and attributes, in both
shell and editor windows. It is probably under-documented; I am still
learning to use it effectively. I am curious if the readline version
works better in any way that IDLE could imitate.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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