"Edwin Boyette" <[email protected]> wrote
Don't try to make interactive programming something its not.
It's handy if you have something short to try out, want to
evaluate a function at some value etc.
Don't rage at the hammer for not being an allen wrench
But in this case it is a valid complaint. Almost every other IDE
with an interactive prompt does pro[per indentation, IDLE is the
exception. Yet IDLE is theone most beginners use first!
I think this is a really serious bug in Idle and is one of the main
reasons I always recommend beginners use Pythonwin or
PyCrust or some other shell window. The Idle editor windows
are fine but the shell window sucks!
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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