On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Paul Moore writes: > > > I have no figures one way or the other on that. You may well be > > right. Are we aiming at "all Windows users" here? > > We need to be careful about this. ISTM that IDLE is aiming at the > subset of users on any platform who for some reason need/want a simple > development environment that is consistent across Python versions and > platforms and immediately available when they install Python, but > don't have one yet.
When I'm on Windows, I use IDLE as my interactive interpreter, but SciTE for actual development. Even on Linux, there's one feature that CLI interactive mode lacks: multi-line command recall. To tinker with a function definition in IDLE, just recall it and edit it. To tinker with it in command-line Python, fetch back each of its lines, or edit it elsewhere and paste it. IDLE isn't a program editor for me, it's the face of Python. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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
