[Edu-sig] PyCrust

[Kirby Urner]

OK, didn't take long to install.  Had to get
wxPython, for which I didn't find an installer
for 2.2.  Probably easy enough to do that, but
I'm with 2.1 now.  Your PyCrust installer
helpfully found both installations -- I picked
2.1 (BTW, does wxPython work on Mac? -- seems
PyCrust blurb say yours does, yet wxPython page
mentions only Windows, POSIX -- which I guess
includes OSX).

So I have PyCrust open, and it does the shell
mode fine.  I like the tips.

I gather there's no builtin program editor ala
IDLE.  I should use Scintilla or something like
that?

Any way to change default colors?  I'm used to
the IDLE color scheme and/or would like the
returned values ("computer types...") to be a
different color (like blue).

The response seems pretty snappy on the whole.

One thing that's cool about IDLE is if I have
a multi-line function or class defined at the shell
prompt, I can scroll back and click on any of these
lines to get a full copy of the whole function or
class -- which I may now edit/revise.  Having only
a single line copy down doesn't allow easy re-editing.
If I use copy/paste, I can get multiple lines, but
the interpreter seems to only recogize the last
one.

Maybe there's something planned around line numbers
(on the left) that'd let me do this.  If there's
a way to turn the line numbers off, that'd be cool
too, as they haven't a lot of meaning to me in shell
mode, the way I think about it today anyway.

Not finding a lot of docs (or any, yet), so maybe
I'm not booting pyCrust the best way.  I open DOS
box and go ..\python pycrust.py

I could convert that into a PIF, or else there's
the option to use the .pyw extension.  Lemme try
renaming pycrust.py to pycrust.pyw and booting it
by clicking in the file manager...

Yeah, that works (had to change the file association
from python22\python to python21\python -- not a
problem).  Note:  the blinking cursor after the
prompt doesn't appear on its own when booting.
I have to click in that window, then it shows after
a second or two.

Kirby