[Tutor] idlex

[Mark Lawrence]

On 07/06/2014 01:12, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 06/06/14 23:13, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> I'd never heard of this until today so thought I'd flag it up for the
>> benefit of anybody who might be interested.  It's at
>> http://idlex.sourceforge.net/
>
>
> IdleX is cool. They've been trying to get many of the
> features incorporated into core Idle for years. I don't
> follow the discussion closely enough to understand why
> there is so much reluctance to do so. So far as I can
> tell all the changes are good!
>

Part of the problem was the question of "is this a bug or an enhancement 
request?".  That's been resolved via PEP 434 
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0434/

Terry Reedy & Co are doing a lot of work to improve Idle.  GSOC students 
are helping again this summer.  Jessica McClellan from the PSF is also 
pushing, and Raymond Hettinger has a strong interest as he teaches using 
Idle.  Nothing like having a few big guns behind you :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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