[Idle-dev] Changing to -Qnew sitewide

[Michael Williams]

I just posted this to comp.lang.python

http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&group=comp.lang.python&selm=ablhh9%24ii04e%241%40ID-96223.news.dfncis.de
(watch those line wraps!)

To summarise, what we want to do is apply the -Qnew switch to idlefork's
interactive shell, and to all the modules it is used to run. I got this
reply (although it hasn't shown up on Google yet):

On Sun, 12 May 2002 13:16:49 +0100, Terry Reedy wrote:
> I would aim at creating an 'idlepy' command which would bring up
> python in -Qnew mode (assuming idlefork code itself is 'Qnew clean')
> with a possibly-patched idlefork in mode in which *it* puts the magic
> incantation at the start of every program.  Automate the repetitive.
> 
> I know nothing of idlefork at this time and do not know if it
> currently has a switch to do this, but it certainly ought to.  I would
> certainly like a version that would do so.  I suspect others would
> also.

Could someone suggest how I might do this?

-- 
Michael