[Idle-dev] Big change to IDLE Shell
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu May 6 19:29:24 EDT 2021
On 5/6/2021 12:29 PM, André Roberge wrote:
> 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.
Please see my other followup post. When code is run in the system
console/terminal, name and attribute error messages may be augmented
with a suggestion at to what one meant. These hints are not directly
accessible from python code. But we figured out how to get them
indirectly (https://bugs.python.org/issue44026). My other post has an
example using the current version of the patch.
> 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.
When we backport to 3.9, I would like to inform educators that they
might want to upgrade to 3.9.5 or 3.10 when released. I will be happy
for you to start the process. I will ask you later for advice.
> Thank you all for the work done to constantly improve IDLE.
Thank you for the feedback.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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