On Friday, July 18, 2014 1:20:10 PM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > PyDev, Eric, Komodo, PyCharm, WingIDE, SPE, Ninja-IDE, > Geany, IEP, Spyder, Boa Constructor, PyScripter, NetBeans, > Emacs, KDevelop, BlackAdder, ...
And tell me Steven, how many of those "quality" IDEs that you listed actually *SHIP* with Python? The *WHOLE* reason for GvR *CREATING* and then *SHIPPING* IDLE, was to provide a simplistic native IDE for the noobs. That was his gift to the noobs, HOWEVER, this community has *SQUANDERED* that gift, and allowed it putrefy for over a decade and a half! A noob has not idea what an IDE *IS*, much less where to find a decent IDE, or what IDEs are even compatible with Python! IDLE was meant to provide a tool by which noobs can use to start writing Python code "out of the box". Do you remember the acronym of "CP4E"[1]? Sadly, most people in this community seem to forgotten, *MAYBE* even the dicktator himself! [1]: https://www.python.org/doc/essays/cp4e/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
