On 1/11/2016 8:09 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Bernardo Sulzbach
<mafagafogiga...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:14 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
Next IDLE feature request: Can you make it so that, across all
platforms, it magically installs PostgreSQL and psycopg2? That would
solve so many of my students' problems...
I detect an invisible smiley at the end of that.
PostgresSQL is not a Python package, hence would need a custom script to
download and invoke, and would probably need user clicks anyway, at
least on Windows. Does/could psycopg2 have such for installing its
dependency?
Can psycopg2 be installed with pip? There is an issue (#23551) to make
a pip GUI and make it accessible from IDLE. We need someone with both
pip and tkinter knowledge to either design and write it or mentor a GSOC
student to do so. One written, I would add an IDLE menu item to run it,
in a separate process, just as done now with turtledemo.
Wouldn't this make the installer much bigger?
See invisible smiley ;-).
Yes, and it's also completely and utterly inappropriate. But I am
seeing a lot of cool magic getting added to Idle. Since I met Python,
it's gone from being "well, yeah, Python *does* include a GUI, but
it's pretty unexciting compared to others" to "Python includes a
pretty decent editor, but it's (unsurprisingly) Python-specific, so I
don't use it for multilingual work".
Shout-out to Terry and the other Idle devs for the work they've put in.
> Thanks!
Thank *you*. It is sometimes thankless work.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
