[Python-Dev] Drop/deprecate Tkinter?

[Tim Peters]

[Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu>]
> It absolutely impossible to remove Tkinter IMHO (it has been
> part of stdlib since like forever and people expect it there;
> its removal would be betrayal on the level of switching = to
> :=), I have my doubts about IDLE though. I know, the same
> argument applies, but really, does anybody use IDLE for
> development for long time, what is its real value for the
> community? Although, even this argument is questionable, because
> Python has some affinity with the learning, and IDLE is a nice
> for first steps nibbling into Python.

IDLE isn't just for eager beginners, but also for those so old &
senile they're incapable of learning anything new ever again.  As
proof, IDLE is still _my_ primary Python development environment, used
multiple times every day, and I'm so old & out-of-it that I'm +1 on
the binding expressions PEP ;-)