[Edu-sig] comments on Idle and Python

[Kent Johnson]

Maybe someone should propose a patch?

Kent

Nick J Chackowsky wrote:
> Toby Donaldson wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>>   - Syntax coloring only happens if you save your file as a '.py' 
>> file. Unfortunately, by default, Idle does *not* save new files as a 
>> .py files. Thus many students ending up files that run fine, but lack 
>> syntax-coloring. So, Idle should either save all files as .py by 
>> default, or syntax-coloring should be turned on by default.
> 
> 
> Hello. Long time lurker, first time poster. Hope this works.
> 
> The "delayed syntax coloring" and lack of default .py extension are my 
> #1 and #2 beefs with Idle. I wonder if this is by design or by accident. 
> If by design, does anyone know why?
> 
> Nick.
> 
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