On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote: > On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Bill Janssen wrote: > >>> I am one of those too, of course, but I do know a lot of Mac users >>> who spend most of their time in applications like Photoshop, >>> Dreamweaver, BBEdit, etc. and rarely venture towards the Terminal. >>> Not quite the same audience, but at least some of them would be >>> potential Python users by way of appscript or web development tools. >> >> Sure, that make perfect sense. >> >>>> But my point was simply that it seems hard to be a Mac user these >>>> days >>>> without some basic use of the Terminal. >>> >>> That's not true at all. >> >> OK, I'm probably the wrong person to assess that. >> >> So it seems that a old Unix-style Python program which reads from >> stdin (or a file or a tty) and writes to stdout would be difficult to >> explain to someone who has never used a command line. And there's >> essentially no way to get Idle started without using a command line. > > What about an app bundle that just starts IDLE?
But if we're going to have them download something, why not a better suite of tools to begin with? -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
