[Python-Dev] IDLE in the stdlib

[Devin Jeanpierre]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> I think being frozen in the late 1990s is better than being frozen in the
> early 1980s, like Command Prompt is. In fact, I think we should 'deprecate'
> the Command Prompt interpreter as the standard interactive interpreter and
> finish polishing and de-glitching IDLE's Python Shell, which runs on top of
> the windowless version of CP with a true GUI. Then we can promote and
> present the latter as the preferred interface, which for many people, it
> already is.

Please don't cease supporting the command line interface. I use the
command line interactive interpreter plenty. That way I can use git,
grep, the unit test suite, etc. ... and the interactive interpreter,
all from one place: the console.

That can't happen with IDLE, by design.

-- Devin