[Pythonmac-SIG] IDLE and MacPython 2.5

[Rodney Somerstein]

At 7:40 AM +0200 10/27/06, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>Why does everyone seem to want to push people away from IDLE? IDLE 
>isn't award-winning material, but it does work properly as a simple 
>python environment.
>
>In a way it is better than most programmers text editors because 
>although it is missing some of the advanced editor features these 
>offer it does come with an embedded python interpreter and debugger.
>

I was wondering about this myself. IDLE colors Python commands and 
offers help with commands while typing. It seems to be an excellent 
learning environment. I don't think I will use it when writing actual 
applications, but for right now, it seems to make more sense than 
Python from the Terminal application or any of the editors people 
have mentioned.

I do appreciate everyone's suggestions of alternatives. For right 
now, though, IDLE is working for me again and I'm happily testing 
various commands and testing out answers to the end of section 
questions in Learning Python.

-Rodney
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