[Python-Dev] IDLE in the stdlib

[Brian Curtin]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Xavier Morel <python-dev at masklinn.net> wrote:
> That would be a blow to educators, but also Windows users: while the CLI
> works very nicely in unices, that's not the case with the win32 console
> which is as best as I can describe it a complete turd, making IDLE a
> very nice proposition there (I never use IDLE on Linux or OSX, but do
> all the time in Windows).

Can you explain this a bit more? I've been using the CLI python.exe on
Windows, Mac, and Linux for years and I don't know what you're talking
about.