[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I don't use IDLE too much anymore, just for quick tests, but > > Just curious. I have tried IDLE, but stopped using it after going > through a few of the tutorials. I just type things in at the 'python' > prompt, regardless of which platform I am working on; Linux, AIX or > Windows. But, then again, my code winds up in a batch process or part > of a web app. > > Is there something cool I am missing? > The main plus of idle for me is that in interactive mode I can easily pull back any single statement (e.g. a complete class definition) edit and then re-execute it. The command line only pulls back single lines for editing, not complete statements.
Also the ways to pull back a previous command are simpler. As well as typing the start of a command then using alt-p to pull it back you can look through the buffer, put the cursor on a command and hit return to get an editable copy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
