Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > * Mensanator: >> ...because there's no [Options] menu on the shell window? >> >> Or at least give me a clue to how to use Courier New font? >> >> For some inscrutable reason, depite the plethora of formatting tools, >> someone decided that proportional spaced fonts ought to be the >> default for IDLE.
Yeah, that was a smart move, wasn't it? > > Why not just use the Python interpreter, a reasonable programmer's > editor and, if you need it, some debugger. > > The source code level debugging in IDLE is nothing to write home about. > I quite agree. > In Windows XP it is just silly: it marks the current line by ordinary > text selection, which (depending on your config, but I think this is > default) is invisible when you're looking at the debugger window for > single stepping. You can see it by switching back to the source code > window but that's annoying, not very practical. Invisible highlighting > of the current line, he he... > I remember being extremely surprised to read that a Python developer I greatly admire uses IDLE as his main development interface. Frankly I have always found IDLE extremely non-intuitive, and I am constantly frustrated at having to explain about its shortcomings and oddities to newcomers in my "Introduction to Python" classes. Who actually maintains IDLE nowadays? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon is coming! Atlanta, Feb 2010 http://us.pycon.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
