Am 21.03.2013 19:13, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:57:54 -0700 > Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: >> >> > Right. Ultimately, I think IDLE should be a separate project entirely, >> > but I >> > guess there's push back against that too. >> >> The most important feature of IDLE is that it ships with the standard >> library. >> Everyone who clicks on the Windows MSI on the python.org webpage >> automatically has IDLE. That is why I frequently teach Python with IDLE. >> >> If this thread results in IDLE being ripped out of the standard distribution, >> then I would likely never use it again. > > Which says a lot about its usefulness, if the only reason you use it is > that it's bundled with the standard distribution.
Just like a lot of the stdlib, it *gets* a lot of usefulness from being a battery. But just because there are better/more comprehensive/prettier replacements out there is not reason enough to remove standard libraries. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
