IDLE: A cornicopia of mediocrity and obfuscation.

Robert sigzero at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 17:38:32 EST 2011


On 2011-01-31 17:17:06 -0500, Kevin Walzer said:
> 
> 
> It certainly would be interesting to see a fresh approach to IDLE, and I
> think the scope of such a project would be much easier for a single
> person to manage than would replacing Tkinter in the stdlib with another
> GUI toolkit, such as wxPython, or pyGUI, or something else. I'd
> encourage you to set up a project page somewhere, begin cutting some
> code, and then invite feedback from other users and/or developers. I
> think that approach has a much better chance of getting off the ground
> and making progress than long threads on c.l.py.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> --Kevin

I think it would be interesting as well. Hmmmm, I am about to do the 
O'Reilly series that Steve Holden did for Python. Maybe I will take 
that up as a project when I get through it (or...*nudge* *nudge* *wink* 
*wink* to Rick, help out if someone else does a fork).

-- 
Robert





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