a couple IDLE questions

[Gordon McMillan]

Magnus L. Hetland wrote:

> Guido van Rossum <guido at cnri.reston.va.us> writes:
> 
> > "Mark Hammond" <MHammond at skippinet.com.au> writes:
> [...]
> > > Maybe, but really, is it worth the effort?  How many times do you
> > > need to edit Python source that does not live in a .py/.pyw file?
> 
> This happens quite a lot for me...
> 
> > 
> > The design of features like this is all open to suggestion.  I don't
> > particularly like the -*- python -*- convention (it's visual
> > pollution in my eyes), but the mechanism that decides could be made
> > configurable, and there could be a manual override.
> 
> How about scanning the #!-line? If it seems to be a python executable
> (i.e. the path ends in python) then this is probably a
> python-script... Then you wouldn't need two separate identifying
> mechanisms...

Modules don't usually start with #!. Windows/Mac scripts don't 
usually start with #!. Even many of my *nix scripts don't, because 
I'm not in the habit of relying on it - having Python in oddball places 
(or multiple installations) on some systems cured me of that habit.

- Gordon