[Python-Dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

[geremy condra]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk at shore.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12 2010, geremy condra wrote:
>
>> No offense, but I've been specifically asked not to do demos with IDLE
>> because it looked 'unprofessional'. Given the constraint of working
>> within tkinter that may not be something you can work around, but I'm
>> sure you can see that from a certain perspective that's beside the
>> point.
>
> Right, I stay away from working on Tk.  It's not even a tkinter issue.
> I hope it will continue to get better, but I imagine it's a moving
> target for the Tk developers.
>
> In your case, just bring up Wing.  That'll impress them.  As long as
> it's not on netbook :-)

The point isn't to impress them. The point is to not embarrass us. I
just do it in gedit and ipython now, and I use an eee 901 for all my
presentations and a good bit of my work and it seems to be fine, which
is not paying much of a complement to IDLE.

Geremy Condra