[Python-Dev] A Friendly IDLE

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/9/2014 12:25 AM, 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:

Python-list, python-ideas, or idle-dev lists might have been better 
places to put this, but here are my responses.

>  1.
>     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.

I do not understand this. Idle is an application, and there already is 
an idle.pyw. On windows, there is a Start Menu entry that calls 
idle.pyw. In Win7, one can pin the icon to the task bar. I presume one 
could make a desktop shortcut also.

>  2.
>     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.

I created http://bugs.python.org/issue21192. Post a patch there if you 
have one.

>  3.
>     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.

We will not disable being able to save the shell window.
http://bugs.python.org/issue11838 is about saving in runnable form.

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Terry Jan Reedy