[Tutor] IDLE - working in windows

[Gauld,AJ,Alan,NEL1A GAULDAJ R]

The old version of IDLE had several problems/bugs in my experience.

The new 0.5 version works very well and I now use it constantly. 
Altho' I suspect its still not happy with Tkinter programs 
- but haven't tried yet.

But at the end of the day running from a command line prompt is 
how the program will be executed ultimately so you still need 
to prove it works there. Also for long coding sessions a better 
editor than IDLE might be desirable - I use vim... but emacs 
or PFE etc all offer more advanced features than IDLE.

Alan g.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:tutor-admin@python.org]On Behalf Of
> David Kaye
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 3:08 AM
> To: tutor
> Subject: [Tutor] IDLE - working in windows
> 
> 
> Why do so many on-line tutorials constantly suggest working 
> in a DOS window
> when working on Python?  I'm just learning the basics now and 
> IDLE seems to
> work fine; it allows me to create a new file and save it 
> while my Python
> command line interface is running.  Am I going to run into 
> trouble as I get
> into different programs?
> 
> 
>