On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> wrote:
On 2009-03-23, Guilherme Polo wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
Guilherme Polo wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
IDLE needs lots of attention -- more than any one experienced person is likely to have
I'm willing to step up as a student for this but I still have to write a good proposal for it. My actual concern is about mentor availability, is someone around interested on being an IDLE mentor ?
If I could, I would, and would have said so. But I have only read about tk and have not actually used it. If I did decide to dive into it, you'd be mentoring me ;-). What I can and would do is give ideas for changes, read and comment on a proposal, and user test patched versions.
That is very nice Terry. Do you have some specific ideas that you want to share publicly (or in private) about IDLE ? Your expectations about what should be addressed first, or areas that should be improved.. you know, anything.
I have one suggestion that I think might be widely appreciated:
Add somewhere in the configuration dialog when users can enter a block of Python code to be executed at startup and whenever Restart Shell is executed.
Use case: for people who use IDLE for calculations/experiments they might like to always have certain module imported. For me personally, it would be:
import os import re import sys from math import *
but of course the whole point is that people can write any code they like. (Some people might want to do various from __future__ imports in Python 2.6 to get various Python 3 features for example.)
I know that you can use the -c option, but that only works at startup, not every time you Restart Shell.
Looks like a good suggestion to me, Mark. I would recommend adding it as a feature request on the typical place (bugs.python.org) because although I could just go and do it, I believe you are aware that new features in IDLE are subject to approval or disapproval by other members involved with IDLE. Hope you understand my position.
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-- Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu C++, Python, Qt, PyQt - training and consultancy "Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt" - ISBN 0132354187
Regards, -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves