[Pythonmac-SIG] IDE feature requests

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

>I don't want to make the interpreter more friendly, really. It's only
>there for executing scripts and for a certain MacPython user whose
>name starts with two Js and who refuses to use the IDE, but aside from
>that I think all nifty features should go into the IDE.

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We still need the interpreter for one huge thing -- Tkinter.  Since 
Tkinter destroys the IDE, having the interpreter around for running 
Tkinter apps is a must.

It would be great to figure out how to get Tkinter running inside the 
IDE, but that seems quite a bit harder than a "Run With Interpreter" 
button in the IDE -- which brings me to my point.  The biggest 
feature that the IDE needs (besides syntax coloring) is that "Run 
With Interpreter" button.  Is anybody working on this right now?  I 
have a idea of how it might work, but I don't want to duplicate 
work...
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Jacob