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

[Sean Felipe Wolfe]

Sorry, looking back on my post I think it could be interpreted as
sarcastic. Actually I was completely serious -- I use IDLE on the Mac and
Vim as my main editor at my job.

So yah, seriously, I love vim and idle. Always great to see more interest.
On Aug 14, 2015 7:24 AM, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Terry Jan Reedy
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