Re: The Future of Python

On 2/11/2014 12:00 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> Good question, Terry. I just installed Python 2.7.6 (Nov. 10, 2013), and
> there are two issues with its IDLE. I don't know whether you're
> referring to this IDLE or to an experimental version (and I've mislaid
> the instructions for how to get the experimental version).

Idle on 2.7 and 3.x are mostly still in sync.
>
> The two issues in Python 2.7.6 in order of importance are these:
>
> (1) atexit isn't honored when I run from IDLE. I've copied Steve
> Spicklemire to ask him to comment on this issue, as it was he who last
> year had an exchange with the IDLE development community about this, and
> I think he said at the time that the bug was acknowledged, but I don't
> know where the bug is documented. Steve addressed this problem in VIDLE.

The followup email with a link to the discussion here will be very 
helpful as the issue never made it to the tracker and I would not have 
remembered the analyses posted there by Roger and me.

> (2) http://bugs.python.org/issue19042 -- this excellent proposal by you
> isn't in Python 2.7.6.

> The importance of issue (1) for us is that the big change in VPython
> last year, carried out by Steve and me, was to base VPython on wxPython.
> It was essential to use atexit to keep the VPython graphics window alive
> at the end of a user's program, but when running from IDLE somehow
> atexit doesn't function.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy