[Idle-dev] Some implemented ideas that may help IDLE, request for feedback

[Bruce Sherwood]

Thanks, but I can't visualize what problem the proposed call stack reporting 
would raise in the Squeezer context....? Wouldn't stuff be squeezed or not just 
the same?

Bruce

Tal Einat wrote:
> Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>> Tal Einat wrote:
>>>>> * When printing a traceback, highlight the stack traces that pertain
>>>>> to the running file and also remove the "in <module>" from them. This
>>>>> is an attempt to make easier for novices to spot probable errors in
>>>>> their own code.Highlight here simply means that it is written to
>>>>> stderr, like it is done now, and the other parts are printed to
>>>>> stdout. The effect normally is that, by default, errors in the primary
>>>>> file are displayed in red, and other call stack information is blue.
>>>> +0 (I haven't noticed this problem but will take your word for it)
>>> I'm a big fan of the Squeezer IDLE extension, and this would break
>>> Squeezer's recognition of blocks of output / tracebacks. Such (ab)use
>>> of sys.stdout and sys.stderr is too much of a hack IMHO.
>>>
>>> -1
>> Could you say a bit more about what Squeezer is or does? How would this
>> colorization affect Squeezer?
> 
> The Squeezer[1] extension for IDLE avoids having IDLE slow down or
> hang when large amounts of text are printed in the shell.
> 
> Technically, Squeezer can replace any block of output (either stdout
> or stderr) with a button. This button can be expanded back to the
> original text, or it can be used to view the squeezed text in a
> separate window or copy it to the clipboard. When a large amount of
> output is written at once to the output, squeezer automatically
> inserts a "squeezed" button instead without ever printing the output,
> thus saving the interactive session from doom. One can also manually
> squeeze blocks of output and blocks of stderr output such as
> tracebacks.
> 
> A picture is worth a thousand words, so I'm attaching a screenshot I
> just worked up in my IDLE.
> 
> - Tal
> 
> [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Squeezer/1.0
> 
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