Test if IDLE is a mature program

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Wed Dec 31 18:57:12 EST 2003


On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:46:25 -0800 (PST), Rob Boyd <boydrobh at yahoo.com> wrote:

>--- Aubrey Hutchison <abhjrpe at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Why do I need to tinker with it?
>> 
>> You don't need to tinker with mature programs.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
>I have _never_ had to tinker with IDLE in order to use
>it. Please read the Python tutorial, 6.1.1, the Module
>Search Path, before making uninformed assertions. Your
>experience has nothing to do with IDLE or really even
>Python. You wouldn't get far in C development if you
>wrote a garbage file named stdio.h and saved it within
>the library search path.

OTOH, you don't expect #include <stdio.h> or #include <cstdio>
to do the same as #include "stdio.h"

Regards,
Bengt Richter



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