[Python-Dev] Accepting PEP 434, Idle Enhancement Exception

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:36:39 -0700
"fwierzbicki at gmail.com" <fwierzbicki at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Simon Cross <hodgestar+pythondev at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > Having a standalone version of IDLE might be really useful to
> > alternative Python implementations.
> 
> I suspect it's too hard. I remember seeing some work on "anygui.py" that
> looked like an attempt to make these sorts of things work across various
> windowing platforms, but I don't think it made it very far.

Instead of "anygui.py", one could probably start with Qt or wxWidgets.
But that would add a dependency to a very large 3rd party library.

Regards

Antoine.