[Idle-dev] Big change to IDLE Shell

[Tal Einat]

On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 7:30 PM André Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 3:52 AM Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>
>> 3.10.0b1 is due to be released next Monday.  The big change for IDLE is
>> in the Shell.  The first line of entered statement will line up with
>> continuation lines and indents will be spaces instead of tabs.  The
>> '>>>' prompt will be either above on a line by itself or to the left in
>> a Shell sidebar.
>
>
> This is just a quick report after a brief test. I just **love** the way
> the prompt is now shown. I am convinced that beginners will be much less
> confused with understanding indentation when using IDLE.
>
> I also did a quick test with friendly (formally known as
> friendly-traceback) and can happily report that support for custom
> excepthook appears to have been unaffected by the latest changes.
>
> I will do more testing in the near future (and likely do a brief demo
> during a presentation at the upcoming PyCon Education Summit). I do not
> plan to report further on this list unless I find problems.
>
> Thank you all for the work done to constantly improve IDLE.
>
> André Roberge
>

Many thanks for testing this, for the feedback and for the kind words,
André! It means very much coming from you.

- Tal
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