[Tutor] Interactive programming.

[Alan Gauld]

"Edwin Boyette" <edwin_boyette at yahoo.com> wrote 

> Don't try to make interactive programming something its not. 
> It's handy if you have something short to try out, want to 
> evaluate a function at some value etc. 
> Don't rage at the hammer for not being an allen wrench 

But in this case it is a valid complaint. Almost every other IDE 
with an interactive prompt does pro[per indentation, IDLE is the 
exception. Yet IDLE is theone most beginners use first!

I think this is a really serious bug in Idle and is one of the main 
reasons I always recommend beginners use Pythonwin or 
PyCrust or some other shell window. The Idle editor windows 
are fine but the shell window sucks!


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Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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