[Edu-sig] comments on Idle and Python

[Florian Reichl]

John M. Zelle schrieb:
> I can't disagree with any of Toby's comments, but overall we like IDLE
> very much here.
> 
> On a slightly more aggravating front, we and others have noticed that IDLE
> 1.04 is not as stable under Windows as previous versions. It seems that
> there are situations that can cause the shell to lose communication with
> its underlying subprocess. This happens sporadically, so it is a bit hard
> to reproduce.

Same at our school:

Sometimes the students just say "Run Module" but they just do not return
to the Python Shell windows.

Also their code in the editor window is not executed. So if they return
to the Python Shell window manually their code changes in the editor
have no effect to the shell.

So the students loose confidence in idle and begin to ask for another
development environment.


Did anyone have the same experiences and got it solved?

Best regards,
Florian