[Tutor] idle??

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jan 13 15:49:37 EST 2016


On 09/01/2016 10:38, Chris Warrick wrote:
> On 8 January 2016 at 20:07, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, where does IDLE fit into this....
>
> IDLE is a sad little “IDE”, which is really ugly, because it’s written
> in Tk. It lacks many IDE features. It comes with a really basic
> debugger (that doesn’t even highlight the line that is being currently
> executed…), function signature hinting, and some code completion.
>

Please ignore this drivel, he's spouted this before without giving any 
justification.  IDLE is perfectly adequate as a starter for Python.

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Mark Lawrence



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