[Idle-dev] RFE: option to switch output from shell window to output window

[Jesse W]

Pardon me if this is already been done, but here is an RFE that I would like to 
see added to IDLEfork.  I may even code it myself. 

	In earlier versions of IDLE, output from programs that were run as scripts was 
sent to a new window called *Output*; the results of Search in Files... is 
still sent to such a window.  It would be very convientient in some 
circumstances to be able to redirect standard output(and possibly standard 
error) to such a window via a key or menu option.  For example, if a program 
spits out a big bunch of text, it's unpleasent to splash it all over the shell 
window, so it would be nice to be able to see it in it's own window. I expect 
this would be pretty simple to code up; just make a toggle function to set 
sys.stdout to the write method of a new "*Output*" window, or to the Shell 
window, then insert the function into the menus or apply it to a keybinding. I 
do not have a SourceForge account, so if someone else could make a bug report 
for this, it would be appreciated. 

				Thanks for all your work, 					Jesse Weinstein