On Jan 31, 9:39 am, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > IDLE: cornucopia ... > These are just the top of the list. The peak of a huge iceberg that > threatens to sink the community in the arms of chaos never to return.
That being said, I've taught a lot of people Python using IDLE. It's a surprisingly productive environment and has a near-zero learning curve. > I am beginning to believe that this community is either made of > amateurs due to this lackluster code in the stdlib. However it could > be that the folks are really professional and refuse to work on such a > horrible code base (which i understand). I am going with the latter. Patches are welcome :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list