<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:48 AM, Antoine Pitrou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:solipsis@pitrou.net" target="_blank">solipsis@pitrou.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Le Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:38:41 +0100,<br>
Georg Brandl <<a href="mailto:g.brandl@gmx.net">g.brandl@gmx.net</a>> a écrit :<br>
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> Am <a href="tel:21.03.2013%2019" value="+12103201319">21.03.2013 19</a>:13, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:<br>
> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:57:54 -0700<br>
> > Raymond Hettinger <<a href="mailto:raymond.hettinger@gmail.com">raymond.hettinger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Mar 20, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Barry Warsaw <<a href="mailto:barry@python.org">barry@python.org</a>><br>
> >> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> > Right. Ultimately, I think IDLE should be a separate project<br>
> >> > entirely, but I guess there's push back against that too.<br>
> >><br>
> >> The most important feature of IDLE is that it ships with the<br>
> >> standard library. Everyone who clicks on the Windows MSI on the<br>
> >> <a href="http://python.org" target="_blank">python.org</a> webpage automatically has IDLE. That is why I<br>
> >> frequently teach Python with IDLE.<br>
> >><br>
> >> If this thread results in IDLE being ripped out of the standard<br>
> >> distribution, then I would likely never use it again.<br>
> ><br>
> > Which says a lot about its usefulness, if the only reason you use<br>
> > it is that it's bundled with the standard distribution.<br>
><br>
> Just like a lot of the stdlib, it *gets* a lot of usefulness from<br>
> being a battery. But just because there are better/more<br>
> comprehensive/prettier replacements out there is not reason enough to<br>
> remove standard libraries.<br>
<br>
</div>That's a good point. I guess it's difficult for me to think of IDLE as<br>
an actual library.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's not a library. It's an application that is bundled in the standard distribution.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div>Tacoma, Washington.</div></div>