Is there a "reset" in Idle?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Alex Martelli wrote:
>         ...
> > If I had any influence in the development of Python as a whole, I'd
> > urge the developers to divert their attention away from sexy new
> > language features and concentrate for a couple of releases on
> > addressing shotcomings that shag the IDEs.
>
> I don't think there are any.  As long as the IDE runs the Python
> application being debugged in a separate process (a pretty obvious
> need -- pity that neither IDLE nor PythonWin do that), what would
> those shortcomings be?

lack of support for in-process editing of Python code
(reload doesn't help much).

and a ton of other things that I cannot think of right now.
(it's all in the PythonWorks bug/request/idea/bluesky data-
base...)

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