[Idle-dev] Submitted Guilherme Polo's enhancement

[Tal Einat]

I've got some free time on my hands and I now have permission to make
commits for IDLE, so I'll take a look at it today.

- Tal

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Thanks very much you for your perseverance. It sounds like the money
> on the GSOC student was well spent. Thanks also for observing novices
> and fixing the issues that cause them the most pain! Hopefully someone
> will review and commit the patches soon!
>
> --Guido
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Bruce Sherwood <basherwo at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>> With great help from Tal Einat on the mechanics of how to submit
>> Guilherme Polo's enhancements, I've presented a diff file to
>> bugs.python.org against the Python 3.1.2 version of idlelib (tag
>> r312).
>>
>> Here's the description:
>>
>> In December 2008 David Scherer created an alternative version
>> of IDLE to fix some long-standing problems. In the 2009 Google
>> Summer of Code Guilherme Polo continued this work, assisted by
>> Bruce Sherwood. Important new fixes and features include:
>>
>>  * A configuration preference that permits writing and running
>>   test programs from the editor without having to save the file
>>   (you're warned upon quitting whether to save).
>>
>>  * Bringing the shell window forward in case of an error (because
>>   novices often failed to realize why their program had stopped).
>>  * A revert plug-in (FileRevert.py).
>>
>>  * Unreliable and slow termination of user program on Windows;
>>   now you can re-run without first closing the graphics window.
>>
>>  * Missing preferences and other menus on Macintosh.
>>
>>  * Use any port for RPC server, so multiple instances of VIDLE
>>   can run at the same time without interference.
>>
>> Polo submitted patches at the end of the summer of 2009, found at
>> code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2009-python/downloads/list
>> This was for the Python 2.X series.
>>
>> Because the mechanism was not clear for getting these patches
>> into the version of IDLE distributed with Python, the patched
>> version has been distributed with VPython (vpython.org) with
>> the name VIDLE to attempt to avoid confusion with IDLE. It is
>> installed into site-packages.
>>
>> In October 2010 Bruce Sherwood manually applied Polo's patches
>> to the idlelib found at
>>   svn.python.org/projects/python/tags/r312/Lib/idlelib
>>
>> In addition to applying Polo's patches, the new code uses the new
>> dot addressing of modules (e.g. from . import PyShell). Except for
>> having to change one absolute address in the use of __import__ in
>> PyShell.py, this version can work either in Python31/Lib/idlelib or
>> in Python31/Lib/site-packages/vidle. This VIDLE will be included in
>> the installer for VPython for Python 3.
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