[Python-Dev] Replacing IDLE

[David Robinow]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Greg Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Seems to me the only kind of IDE that it makes sense to
> ship with Python is one that is written in Python and
> maintained by the core developers. Anything else is best
> left as a third party package for download by those
> who want to use it.
>
> Tkinter is arguably not a very good basis for it from a
> technical point of view, but so far all the alternatives
> are too bloated and/or nonportable to consider bundling
> with the standard distribution.
>
> So the only realistic alternatives at the moment seem
> to be either IDLE+Tkinter or nothing.
>
 My immediate reaction? What about stdwin?
 Then I found this:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-October/010113.html