Re: trying idle

From	Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: trying idle
Date	2014-10-10 03:08 -0500
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On 10/9/14 1:52 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
 > Been using emacs for over 20 years and teaching python for 10.
 > And getting fed up that my audience looks at me like Rip van Winkle
 > each time I start up emacs...

   (sigh)

 > So trying out Idle...

    Good for you! ... and even better for your students. IDLE is 
fabulous as a native python interactive development environment these 
days. It really works well, is clean and does what it advertises; its 
very nice!

 >
 > Some specific and some general questions:
 > My audience consists of people having linux and windows and macbooks.
 > Does Idle run on all these?

    Absolutely. The ONLY problem you might run into on the (macs) apple 
systems is that tcl/tk tkinter might be at the wrong level. Use ActiveTCL:

   https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk

   Depending on the apple system the wrong (built-in tcl/tk tkinter) 
will cause problems. If you ActiveTCL you'll have no problem. Just point 
your students at the appropriate pages.

Cheers

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trying idle Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-08 23:52 -0700
  Re: trying idle Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-09 05:26 -0400
    Re: trying idle Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-09 05:53 -0700
    Re: trying idle Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-09 06:12 -0700
      Re: trying idle Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-10-09 16:49 -0400
        Re: trying idle Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-09 19:03 -0700
    python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-16 06:29 -0700
      Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle) MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-10-16 15:04 +0100
      Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-17 02:23 +1100
        Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle) Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-10-16 16:23 +0000
          Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-10-17 03:33 +1100
      Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle) Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-10-17 08:48 +1100
        Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle) Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-10-16 18:08 -0700
          Re: python3 on mac-mavericks (was trying idle) Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-10-17 16:03 +1100
  Re: trying idle wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-10-09 05:21 -0700
    Re: trying idle Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-10-10 02:54 -0500
  Re: trying idle random832@fastmail.us - 2014-10-09 08:47 -0400
    Re: trying idle Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-10-10 02:53 -0500
      Re: trying idle random832@fastmail.us - 2014-10-10 15:32 -0400
  Re: trying idle Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-10-10 03:08 -0500

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