[Python-bugs-list] IDLE and -t (PR#213)

[guido@python.org]

> Since no other X app I know of works this way, I think this is a bug.
> 
> If you set the title of the IDLE window:
> 
>      idle.py -t IDLE
> 
> the title is set correctly, but the icon name is not.
> It is set to "*IDLE" rather than "IDLE".

Not a bug -- IDLE adds * before (and after!) the window title and
icon name to indicate that the window is modified and unsaved.

Does this bother you in some way?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)