On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 04:11:59 +0200, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of 14 Jun 2015 01:59:10 +0000, "Steven D'Aprano" writes: >>On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:09:48 -0700, C.D. Reimer wrote: >> >>> On 6/13/2015 1:59 PM, Laura Creighton wrote: >>>> Idle is written in pure python. Steal from: >>>> https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/74d182cf0187/Lib/idlelib/ >>GrepDialog.py >>>> if you do not have a copy locally. >>> >>> I've been using Notepad++ (Windows) and TextWrangler (Mac) for over a >>> decade now. Idle may be pure Python, but that's not enough for me to >>> switch. :) >> >> >>You don't have to switch for good. You can fire up IDLE to do this one >>job, then never use it again. >> >> > Or my idea was, if his plan was to write a script to grep through his > files, he could just go out and steal the code that comes with idle > where it is already written for him.
Well, yes, but since IDLE already contains that script, why not just use IDLE? > Of course, by now he may have already written one ... Indeed. -- Steven D'Aprano -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
