On 2013-03-20, at 20:59 , Brian Curtin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Xavier Morel <python-...@masklinn.net> wrote: >> That would be a blow to educators, but also Windows users: while the CLI >> works very nicely in unices, that's not the case with the win32 console >> which is as best as I can describe it a complete turd, making IDLE a >> very nice proposition there (I never use IDLE on Linux or OSX, but do >> all the time in Windows). > > Can you explain this a bit more? I've been using the CLI python.exe on > Windows, Mac, and Linux for years and I don't know what you're talking > about.
Windows's terminal emulator (the "win32 console")'s deficiencies don't break it for running existing script, but make using it interactively a rather thankless task, at least as far as I'm concerned: no readline keybinding (e.g. C-a & C-e), very limited scrollback, fixed width, non-handling of signals (C-d will simply print ^D, a syntax error), odd copy behavior (rectangle copies *only*), etc… _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
