[Idle-dev] Running beginner Pythons

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/9/2015 10:29 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Reconceptualizing for beginners...
>
> Many people working with kids have asked for various changes to Python
> in order to make it easier for kids, sometimes very young.  Some
> variations have been requested more than once.
>
> 1. Simple looping:
> 2. Simple function call:
> 3. Simple Native language keywords.

4. Visible leading spaces (or even all spaces).  There is a unicode 
small middle dot char that is suitable for this.  It would have to be 
translated back to space before feeding to compile.  This could be a 
one-off hard-coded mechanism, but I would rather add a generic mechanism.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy