[Idle-dev] Making Python Speech-Friendly Under IDLE

[David Scherer]

>      Is anyone interested in making Python's
> whitespace (tabs) more speech-friendly under IDLE?

How would this be done?  I don't know anything about the conventions used
for such things.

if x<>y:
	if x<3:
		x = x + 1
	x = x + y

Saying each tab character where it appears gives:

"if x not equal y colon; tab if x less than 3 colon; tab tab x equals x plus
1; tab x equals x plus y"

Saying the invisible DEDENT tokens gives:

"if x not equal y colon; if x less than 3 colon; x equals x plus 1; dedent;
x equals x plus y; dedent"

Or, equivalently you could invent an "end if":

"if x not equal y colon; if x less than 3 colon; x equals x plus 1; end if;
x equals x plus y; end if"

How about using pitch?  My background in music theory is limited to having
played the piano when I was six, but something like:

(C3)"if x not equal y colon"
(E3)"if x less than 3 colon"
(G3)"x equals x plus 1"
(E3)"x equals x plus y"

Any other ideas?  I don't think I will have time to work on this, but I can
kibitz ;)

Dave