Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-11 Thread geremy condra
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:59:14 -0400 Glyph Lefkowitz gl...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: Guido proposes to give someone interested in IDLE commit

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-11 Thread Jesse Noller
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Mark Lawrence breamore...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I see. What copy have you been using specifically? I think I need to remove myself from these lists. Regards, Martin Hi Martin, Again thanks for the response. I've been working from this:-

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-11 Thread Jesse Noller
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 8:22 PM, geremy condra debat...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Antoine Pitrou solip...@pitrou.net wrote: On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:59:14 -0400 Glyph Lefkowitz gl...@twistedmatrix.com wrote: Guido proposes to give someone interested in IDLE commit

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-11 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/11/2010 2:40 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Guido There clearly are *some* folks who care enough about IDLE to submit bug reports and fixes. How about we empower these people by giving at least one of them commit privileges? IDLE development has often been done by people who aren't otherwise

[Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Tal Einat
Hello, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. I have been using IDLE since 2002 and have been doing my best to help maintain and further develop IDLE since 2005. In recent years IDLE has received negligible interest and attention from the Python community. During this

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/10/2010 7:05 PM, Tal Einat wrote: Hello, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. -1 I use it daily. On Windows, it works better in many ways than the awful interactive command window, which I almost never use. I would rather the latter be replaced. I have

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Miki Tebeka
Hello Tal, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. -1. One of the biggest selling points for me when switching to python was the out of the box working IDE with REPL, syntax highliting and a debugger. The only other candidate I think of to replace IDLE might be IPython.

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Guilherme Polo
2010/7/10 Miki Tebeka miki.teb...@gmail.com: Hello Tal, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. -1. One of the biggest selling points for me when switching to python was the out of the box working IDE with REPL, syntax highliting and a debugger. The only other

Re: [Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-10 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Jul 10, 2010, at 9:23 PM, Guilherme Polo wrote: 2010/7/10 Miki Tebeka miki.teb...@gmail.com: Hello Tal, I would like to propose removing IDLE from the standard library. -1. -1 from me too. IDLE is the tool I almost always used to introduce people to Python. FWIW, I've run in on a Mac

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