[Python-ideas] Introducing PEP 434 -- IDLE Enhancement Exception for All Branches

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 20, 2013, at 04:10 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

>We could have a stable version of IDLE in the std lib, and another 
>version available on PyPI. The PyPI version could change more rapidly, 
>since it doesn't have to fit in with the release schedule for the std 
>lib. As the release schedule allows, the two branches could be merged.
>
>I have no idea if this has been tried before, but I think this would 
>work better for an application like IDLE than for a library.

There's some precedence for this I think, e.g. mock, unittest2, email.

-Barry
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