[Idle-dev] Deprecate running IDLE without a subprocess

[Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Roger Serwy <roger.serwy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 06/12/2012 06:45 AM, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin wrote:
>
>> I'd say unsaved source is rare case; the more precious thing lost is the
>> shell window - commands history and outputs.
>> This is a problem both when you have kill IDLE itself because the
>> executed code is stuck,
>> and when you just want ensure a clean run - without Restart Shell
>> functionality, you have to close and reopen IDLE, again losing shell history
>> (one could remember to always Save As the shell window, but there's no
>> convenient way to load it inside IDLE).
>>
>>  When you say shell history, do you mean IdleHistory.py's History object
> or the contents of the shell window?


Both.

>
> I have written an extension to automatically save and restore the History
> object for IDLE, as part of IdleX.
>
> Nice.  Even with it, the experience in single-process mode would be
annoying.

Anyway, the question is not so much whether one can be happy with the
single-process mode,
but whether anybody is unable to use subprocess mode.
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