[Python-Dev] A Friendly IDLE

[Tal Einat]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 4/9/2014 12:25 AM, adnanumer95 at gmail.com wrote:

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

I'm adding idle-dev, where this belongs. Further discussion should
take place there rather than on python-dev.

>>  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.

If IDLE saves the shell history to a file with a .py extension by
default, that is indeed confusing. It is useful to be able to save the
history to a file, but it shouldn't have a .py extension.

- Tal Einat