[Python-Dev] [Idle-dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

[Michael Foord]

On 12/07/2010 22:47, Fred Drake wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk>  wrote:
>    
>> I'm sure Brett will love this idea, but if it was impossible to reimport the
>> script being executed as __main__ with a different name it would solve these
>> problems.
>>      
> Indeed!  And I'd be quite content with such a solution, since I
> consider scripts and modules to be distinct.
>    

It seems to bite every newbie at some point. The change would have to go 
through the usual deprecation cycle I guess.

All the best,

Michael Forod

>
>    -Fred
>
>    


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