Re: [Python-Dev] A Friendly IDLE
Tal Einat <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Terry Reedy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/9/2014 12:25 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Python-list, python-ideas, or idle-dev lists might have been better places to put this, but here are my responses. I'm adding idle-dev, where this belongs. Further discussion should take place there rather than on python-dev. >> 3. >> In Python Shell Save & Save As menus are enable and using them we >> can save shell text as python script (.py) that never executes again >> on IDLE. I recommends to either disable this option or save shell >> text as plain text. I made a little try to disable this and succeed. > > > We will not disable being able to save the shell window. > http://bugs.python.org/issue11838 is about saving in runnable form. If IDLE saves the shell history to a file with a .py extension by default, that is indeed confusing. It is useful to be able to save the history to a file, but it shouldn't have a .py extension. - Tal Einat