[Idle-dev] Re: -Qnew default

[Michael Williams]

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 01:55:44PM -0400, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> Some months ago I experimented with making -Qnew the default when running 
> from idlefork, and it mostly worked, though as I remember it there was a 
> problem with a pre-release version of Python 2.2, which has probably been 
> fixed by now. In ExecBinding.py, make the indicated change:
> 
>    def run_complete_script_event(self, event):
>        filename = self.getfilename()
>        if not filename: return
>        filename = os.path.abspath(filename)
> 
>        self.stopProgram()
> 
>        self.commands = [ ('run', filename) ]
>        waiting_for_loader.append(self)
> ##        spawn.spawn( pyth_exe, load_py )
> ## The following makes all programs started from IDLE use true division:
>        spawn.spawn( pyth_exe, "-Qnew", load_py )

That works for modules but not the interactive shell. Any ideas?

-- 
Michael