a couple IDLE questions
Blake Winton
bwinton at tor.dhs.org
Thu Sep 9 21:59:53 EDT 1999
On 09 Sep 1999 08:06:24 -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> > 2. I point the above variable at ~/.pythonrc. When I open that
>> > file, it doesn't colorize it, I suppose since it doesn't end in
>> > ".py".
>> Maybe, but really, is it worth the effort? How many times do you
>> need to edit Python source that does not live in a .py/.pyw file?
>The design of features like this is all open to suggestion. I don't
>particularly like the -*- python -*- convention (it's visual pollution
>in my eyes), but the mechanism that decides could be made configurable,
>and there could be a manual override.
It's been a while since I've looked at the code, but didn't it also
colourise the file if the first line looked like "#!/something/python"?
Later,
Blake.
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