[Idle-dev] [Python-Dev] A Friendly IDLE

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/10/2014 4:18 AM, Tal Einat wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> On 4/9/2014 12:25 AM, adnanumer95 at gmail.com wrote:

>>>      In Python Shell Save & Save As menus are enable and using them we
>>>      can save shell text as python script (.py) that never executes again
>>>      on IDLE. I recommends to either disable this option or save shell
>>>      text as plain text. I made a little try to disable this and succeed.
>>
>> We will not disable being able to save the shell window.
>> http://bugs.python.org/issue11838 is about saving in runnable form.
>
> If IDLE saves the shell history to a file with a .py extension by
> default, that is indeed confusing. It is useful to be able to save the
> history to a file, but it shouldn't have a .py extension.

I agree: if shell window is saved as is, as logfile, as at present, the 
default should be .txt. #21140 is about changing default for Output 
Window; same method will work shell. Issue above is really about adding 
a second save option.

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Terry Jan Reedy