[Idle-dev] idle development && run script

[Ken Kinder]

How about saving a temporary file somewhere else or prompting for a save
right there?

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Ken Kinder
www.kenkinder.com

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> > I have recently become interested in idle because I need a
> > decent python ide for some programming workshops. The people
> > are either newbies or have experience with Borland's
> > Turbo Pascal IDE.
> > 
> > Now that I am evaluating idle for this task I have come
> > across some "issues". The most annoying is to have to
> > save every time before running a script. I have hacked this
> > for my version so that it tries to save before attempting
> > to run (and throws an errorbox only in case the save does
> > not succeed).
> > 
> > It works fine (at least for my purposes), but there is
> > a comment on the top of getfilename in ScriptBinding.py
> > saying "Better logic would offer to save!". I disagree
> > with this.
> > 
> > What are the current plans for idle development?
> 
> Not much -- we've got so much else to do that we're waiting for 2.0 to
> be complete before we get back to IDLE (probably).
> 
> In the mean time, I agree with you that this area of IDLE needs a lot
> of improvement.  I have some ideas (with Jeremy) for completely
> revamping this part of IDLE, which involve running the program in a
> separate process altogether (the only way to get everything to work
> right).  This would require a lot of restructuring, and the code you
> are patching would probably disappear completely...
> 
> I'm not sure what to do about your proposed patch, but I do want to
> say that I am *against* saving without asking the user.
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)
> 
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