[Idle-dev] IDLE: Integrated Development and Learning Environment?

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/2/2015 5:50 PM, Mark Roseman wrote:
> I like the idea of the name change, and that it encompasses
> ‘learning'. As far as tag lines go, I’d be more inclined towards
> something like “IDLE is Python’s Integrated Development and Learning
> Environment” (i.e. the tkinter stuff isn’t hugely important to the
> user audience, and the possessive “Python’s” captures the “for
> Python” as well as it’s built-in as part of Python.

OK.  The tkinter/tk part is not needed here in the user doc.  It is only 
really needed later to explain why IDLE windows, and in particular the 
Shell, act a bit differently from a console/terminal window.

>> On Oct 2, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: I
>> propose that IDLE be renamed or at least viewed as a acronym for
>> "Integrated Development and Learning Environment".  (See below for
>> history.) The specific change would be to make the first line of
>> idle.rst and derivatives read (something like) "IDLE is an
>> Integrated Development and Learning Environment for Python, writen
>> in Python with the tkinter GUI package."

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Terry Jan Reedy