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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 09:20:34 +1100
Subject: Re: Error Testing
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
> 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.

Less obnoxious, more friendly, and way WAY more powerful. As I said in
the other thread, multi-line recall is its biggest lack, but for the
rest, it's quite usable. On Windows, not so much. (Mind you, I'm
accustomed to readline, so if you don't have it, you'll feel more
strongly about Idle.)

ChrisA