[Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Bill,

On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

>> I am one of those too, of course, but I do know a lot of Mac users
>> who spend most of their time in applications like Photoshop,
>> Dreamweaver, BBEdit, etc. and rarely venture towards the Terminal.
>> Not quite the same audience, but at least some of them would be
>> potential Python users by way of appscript or web development tools.
>
> Sure, that make perfect sense.
>
>>> But my point was simply that it seems hard to be a Mac user these  
>>> days
>>> without some basic use of the Terminal.
>>
>> That's not true at all.
>
> OK, I'm probably the wrong person to assess that.
>
> So it seems that a old Unix-style Python program which reads from
> stdin (or a file or a tty) and writes to stdout would be difficult to
> explain to someone who has never used a command line.  And there's
> essentially no way to get Idle started without using a command line.

What about an app bundle that just starts IDLE?

Kevin

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