Terry J. Reedy added the comment: This is at least 2 issues: startup and restart. I closed #8378 as a partial duplicate of the startup issue.
For startup, I reject the idea of changing the default and the meaning of -s. First, it would break the general back-compatibility policy and possibly break scripts of people who read the doc and proceeded accordingly. Second, while I generally prefer Idle to match the console interpreter, there is an important difference in having tkinter and idlelib modules involved. A startup script that works fine for the console could create subtle bugs in Idle. I suspect that whoever chose the current default had some thought like this. To put this a different way, running idle is similar to running 'python -i idle' and python does not run startup files with -i. Third, this change shuffles responsibilities around without any net gain that I see. #5594 suggests adding startup options to the configuration file and dialog. I like this better and consider it possible. For restart, the result of Restart Shell Cntl-F6 should be the same as an initial start (without running a file from the editor). On the other hand, I agree with Beni's concern about matching python -i when running editor files. I also agree with Beni that the run... functions should be reviewed for possible refactoring, and, sadly, that testing is difficult. We would need a test script that documents both current and desired behavior and people to run it (by hand and eye) on Windows, Linux, and Mac. ---------- assignee: kbk -> nosy: +terry.reedy stage: -> patch review versions: +Python 3.4, Python 3.5 -Python 2.6, Python 3.0, Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5233> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
