[Idle-dev] A little improvement on identation

Grégoire Dooms dooms at info.ucl.ac.be
Fri Oct 21 09:55:53 CEST 2005


João Paulo Silva wrote:


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>So, mainly for beginners (I believe for everyone), the IDLE
>interactive mode could work like the "pure text" mode. The '...' is
>very useful to maintain the identation, and the code becomes easier to
>read and write.
>
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There is a similar issue in the Python tutorial where the first examples 
use the Cpython interpreter style (ps2="...")
while latter examples use Idle style. The rationale is that using the 
Idle style eases copy-paste of the code.
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Grégoire Dooms




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