[Idle-dev] moving IDLE forward (was Re: IDLE in UK Schools)

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/13/2015 12:56 PM, Al Sweigart wrote:
> In general, it seems that most experienced developers either want a full
> featured IDE like Eclipse or PyCharm, or they want something simpler in
> which case they go with a text editor like Vim or Sublime Text. Idle
> can't (and shouldn't) compete with either of those categories.

I agree. Idle fills a niche in between those categories -- a simple 
python-only ide.  On Windows at least, it is also a replacement for the 
wretched interactive console.

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Terry Jan Reedy