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Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach
Date 2015-08-06 18:58 -0400
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On 8/5/2015 9:21 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:

> I used idle to teach a 2nd year engineering course last sem
> It was a more pleasant experience than I expected
> One feature that would help teachers:
> It would be nice to (have setting to) auto-save the interaction window
> [Yeah I tried to see if I could do it by hand but could not find where]
> Useful for giving as handouts of the class
> So students rest easy and dont need to take 'literal' notes of the session

To prevent this idea from getting lost, I added "A follow-on issue would 
be to have an option to prompt to save (as with editor windows) or 
autosave when closing the shell.  A default path might be 
.idlerc/shellsave.txt." to
https://bugs.python.org/issue21937
and a reference in my personal list.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-08-05 21:06 -0400
  Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-08-05 18:21 -0700
    Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-08-06 18:58 -0400
    Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Friedrich Rentsch <anthra.norell@bluewin.ch> - 2015-08-07 09:22 +0200
  Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-05 19:12 -0700
    Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-05 22:46 -0700
      Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-06 08:18 +0200
  Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2015-08-05 21:41 -0700
  Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-08-06 00:26 -0700
  Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-08-06 11:29 +0200
  Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-06 21:14 -0400
    Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-08-07 21:38 -0400
  Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-07 20:58 -0700
  Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@free.fr> - 2015-08-08 19:59 +0200
    Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach random832@fastmail.us - 2015-08-08 23:50 -0400
      Re: Who uses IDLE -- please answer if you ever do, know, or teach Laurent Pointal <laurent.pointal@free.fr> - 2015-08-10 02:24 +0200

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