On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why install an IDE when IDLE is already there? Oh, yes, IDLE SUCKS. I > know that already. But this revelation begs the question... Why has > this community allowed IDLE to rot? Why has guido NOT started a public > discussion on the matter?
Conversely, why write an IDE into IDLE when perfectly-good IDEs already exist? I don't use IDLE for development per se; it's for interactive Python execution, but not editing of source files. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list