New submission from Toby Donaldson :
I've been using Idle to teach beginning programming to university
students for the last 6 or 7 years. I've taught hundreds and hundreds of
students, and the single biggest confusion with Idle is this:
"New Window" in the file menu is amb
Toby Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I also had problems running IDLE, and the fix listed here solved it for
me: http://bugs.python.org/issue3628
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New submission from Toby Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The doc string for zfill use the variable name "x" when it should
probably be using the variable name "S".
>>> print(''.zfill.__doc__)
S.zfill(width) -> str
Pad a numeric string x with zer
Toby Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
The problem seems to have disappeared in the 3.0b3 Windows installer
version --- the Home key seems to work as it should.
(However, to get IDLE to run at all in 3.03b, I had to apply the fix
listed here: http://bugs.python.org/iss
Toby Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
I am using (x86) Python 3.0b2 on Windows XP Home Edition (SP 3) on an
AMD 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+, 2.41 GHz, with 2 GB of RAM.
Just to be clear, its when I press HOME in the *editor* window when the
crash occurs. There's
New submission from Toby Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
In IDLE 3.0b2, whenever I press the Home key in an IDLE editor window,
IDLE ends and all windows disappear.
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components: IDLE
messages: 71953
nosy: tjd
severity: normal
status: open
title: pressing HOME key in IDLE edito
