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Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 15:50:30 -0400
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On 10/19/2013 2:08 PM, David Robinow wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You can try all these out in the interactive interpreter (you probably
>> have IDLE installed, which on Windows is rather nicer to work with
>> than the default interactive mode).
>   IDLE is cross-platform.  Could you explain why you say "on Windows"?

The command line console on *nix is apparently less obnoxious that the 
one on Windows. So for people who use an editor other than the Idle 
editor, there is less reason to use just the Idle shell.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy