[Python-3000] What do do about IDLE?

[Paul Boddie]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> On 8-mei-2006, at 4:07, Bill Janssen wrote:
> >
> > Much as we might like to think otherwise, there's no standard GUI in
> > the Python core, and IDLE (or anything else that depends on it) won't
> > work in some cases where it should work.
> 
> Yes there is. Some distributors are lame enough to think they know
> better and ship parts of the standard library seperately, but that's not a
> valid reason for removing parts of the stdlib.

Well, Tk is available on the "big three" (Windows, Mac, UNIX), but if you 
venture onto other platforms, don't expect to find it there. People may argue 
that the "big three" are all that matter, but that argument usually ends up 
with the "big two" and then total incoherence: eg. "this works on the Windows 
and Mac, whereas this works on Windows and UNIX"; something that has 
gradually (and thankfully) been eradicated over the past few years in parts 
of the standard library.

Paul

P.S. I thought Python 3000 had quite a lot to say on the tidying up of the 
standard library, or is it now the case that everyone wants to make language 
changes instead?