[Python-ideas] Introducing PEP 434 -- IDLE Enhancement Exception for All Branches

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/20/2013 8:44 PM, Andre Roberge wrote:
>  From what I have read on edu-sig, I believe it would be a huge mistake
> to remove IDLE from the Python standard library.

The idea was proposed 2 1/2 years ago, partly because IDLE was then 
buggy and mostly not maintained. The idea was rejected in favor of 
improving IDLE. Since then, many bugs have been quashed and idle is 
getting active attention.

Do you have any idea what education users think about backporting IDLE 
enhancements? Would they support the PEP? Or would they rather only get 
true bugfixes in bugfix releases, even for IDLE?

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Terry Jan Reedy