[Python-Dev] A Friendly IDLE

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014, at 21:25, adnanumer95 at gmail.com wrote:
> Greeting Everyone. First of all I want to introduce my self Adnan Umer as
> a student of bachelors in Information Technology.
> 
> 
> I’ve few suggestions on improving IDLE. Here are few:
> 
> On windows we can open any python file from context menu because IDLE is
> not a application. I recommends to create a simple executable that  just
> calls ‘idle.pyw’ module in lib\idlelib.
> 
> 
> On executing python script with IDLE we can’t determine which file is
> executed. I recommends to print file name before executing. I made a
> little try to do that and I succeed.
> 
> 
> In Python Shell Save & Save As menus are enable and using them we can
> save shell text as python script (.py) that never executes again on IDLE.
> I recommends to either disable this option or save shell text as plain
> text. I made a little try to disable this and succeed.
> 
> 
> There is almost no difference on displayed result of these two command
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >>> print (1)
> 
> 1
> 
> >>> 1
> 
> 1
> 
> 
> there must be some difference as this creates a lot of confusion for
> beginners to understand purpose of print statement.

Python 3.3.3 (default, Jan 19 2014, 01:10:27) 
[GCC 4.7.3] on linux
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>>> print("hello")
hello
>>> "hello"
'hello'