[Idle-dev] Anticipated changes for Mac OS X

[Guido van Rossum]

> Another vote in favor. This has been a problem for my students, albeit
> fairly minor. The disappearance of colorizing is pretty counterintuitive,
> too, when the .py is omitted.

Actually, the latter is a clue. :-)

I agree that it's best to have a default .py extension.  But note that
then the check for an existing file by the dialog is defeated, so
you'll have to check for this yourself after adding the extension and
pop up a dialog if the file exists.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)