Re: put idle on github?

On 7/25/2015 3:09 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> I think eventually it should be removed from the stdlib -- but this is
> controversial, as educators often are forced to rely on the IDLE that is
> bundled with the Python installer.

David Ames: "Most of the schools I have been in restrict access to the 
command line for "security" reasons, they also often prevent the running 
of .bat files, and other similar scripts for the same reason."

https://bitbucket.org/lordmauve/pgzero/issues/23/add-a-way-of-invoking-pgzrun-on-the

 > But that's a longer discussion.

One objection to Idle is appearance.  Mark Roseman, a tk/ttk expert, has 
volunteered to fix that as much as possible, if we are not prevented 
from doing so.  See the "IDLE and ttk" thread.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy