On Wednesday, November 1, 2017, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 11/1/2017 2:54 AM, Wes Turner wrote:
A Tk GUI for pip would need to frustratingly duplicate ~/.bash_history and
up-arrow to get the previous command.
No it wouldn't, as the user would not be directly issuing pip commands. In any case, it would be trivial to keep a list of the pip commands submitted behind the gui facade and even to have an optional window to display them.
Now that there's a ``pip freeze`` and a ``conda env export``, it seems like it's much easier to determine what one just did to their {system, --user, virtualenv, conda root, or condaenv} without having a list of commands to review (ala .bash_history) or filesystem diff's. Would such a GUI handle these cases and also virtualenv create-and-restart? Bash can be installed in Windows.
IDLE sucks.
Why pollute your post with stupid flame bait? In many respects, IDLE's Shell is unequivocally better than interactive python in a line-oriented shell like Command Prompt. Ironically, given your comment above, one of its improvements is keeping a history of *statements* rather than a history of lines. This makes it possible to retrieve and edit a whole command (statement) at once, rather than in pieces (lines).
Spyder is an IDE with a command prompt (shell window) and a python prompt (python window, ipython window).
-- Terry Jan Reedy
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