[issue31319] Rename idlelib to just idle

2017-09-03 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Hi Éric. Adding idle.py would make -m idle work. But I believe it would violate existing policy. So I will not propose it on python-ideas or pydev and hope no one else does either. PEP 434, at least in part, formalized what I believe was older practice with

[issue31319] Rename idlelib to just idle

2017-09-03 Thread Aaron Hall
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[issue31319] Rename idlelib to just idle

2017-09-01 Thread Éric Araujo
Éric Araujo added the comment: What about adding a simple Lib/idle.py that imports and runs the main function from idlelib? -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue31319] Rename idlelib to just idle

2017-09-01 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy added the comment: idlelib.__main__ was added in 3.3: Patch was d543f2b8b0b66af330aae6764e53495cda48fd4e Author: Andrew Svetlov Date: 3/26/2012 3:11:46 PM Message: IDLE can be launched as python -m ildelib [misspelled] #24212 was about backporting the addition to 2.7. I opened

[issue31319] Rename idlelib to just idle

2017-09-01 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I would also like Terry to consider renaming or aliasing idlelib to idle. That would further simplify the startup and it is a more appropriate name given that IDLE is used as an application rather than as a library. -- resolution: duplicate -> sta