Newbie edit/compile/run cycle question

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Jeremy C B Nicoll a écrit :
> Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
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>>Jeremy C B Nicoll a écrit :
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>>>Figuring out how IDLE works is a bit beyond me at this stage.
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>>Did you try out, or is it just an a priori ?
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> Sort of, no and yes...  
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> A few weeks ago I started trying to use Python & IDLE and found a bug (which
> I reported on idle-dev).  In the course of discussing that I found out that
> the whole IDLE source was present in \idlelib which I hadn't realised,

FWIW, Python is free software, and you have access to all sources - C 
and Python - of the python exe and standard lib.

> and
> did look at it.  But for a Python newbie (if not a programming newbie) it's
> too much to understand. 

Mmm... Possibly, yes. OTHO, I know from experience that reading other 
peoples code is a good way to learn. Working mostly with free softwares 
myself, I often use the source as documentation...