[Idle-dev] Running beginner Pythons

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Feb 6 14:12:49 EST 2016


On 11/12/2015 6:55 AM, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin wrote:
> If IDLE is special for education simply because it comes installed out
> of the box[1],
> perhaps what educators would really want is that IDLE included an easy
> way to fetch any package from PyPI?

This is basically https://bugs.python.org/issue23551

> (Ideally, installing into a virtualenv that doesn't affect the machine,
> to keep admins less anxious, and to allow easy resetting to clean slate.)

I added a note to the issue.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy



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