[Edu-sig] comments on Idle and Python

[Nick J Chackowsky]

Toby Donaldson wrote:

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>   - Syntax coloring only happens if you save your file as a '.py' 
> file. Unfortunately, by default, Idle does *not* save new files as a 
> .py files. Thus many students ending up files that run fine, but lack 
> syntax-coloring. So, Idle should either save all files as .py by 
> default, or syntax-coloring should be turned on by default.

Hello. Long time lurker, first time poster. Hope this works.

The "delayed syntax coloring" and lack of default .py extension are my 
#1 and #2 beefs with Idle. I wonder if this is by design or by accident. 
If by design, does anyone know why?

Nick.