On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:55 AM, Jonathan Fine <jfine2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Improving a rendering engine or console so it's capable of correct RTL >> display is outside the scope of Python code, generally. > > I agree with you, generally. > > But there are over 600 million people who speak a RTL language. About > 12% of the world's population. I'd like Python's command line console > to work for them.
That's fine - but adding methods to Python won't change it. It's a console change, not a language change. > I'm beginning to think that, as well as (instead of?) IDLE, a browser > based Python command line console might be a good idea. For example, > I'm getting reasonable results from using > > https://brython.info/tests/editor.html?lang=en > > Perhaps RTL and LTR problems by themselves are not sufficient reason > to make a browser-based IDLE. But they should be a significant > influence. Something to think about. > > By the way, IDLE has the same problem. Have you tried out ipython / Jupyter? It might be what you're looking for. (I haven't tried it on this.) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
