IDLE developers,
In the interest of simplifying IDLE's code, I suggest that running IDLE
*without* a subprocess be deprecated. Since 2009, IDLE could have
multiple instances running while using a subprocess. See
http://bugs.python.org/issue1529142
Running without a subprocess has a flaw in
I'm not sure I understand this issue, but I'll comment that this is
just one of many reasons why the user's file should always be saved
before a run, a feature introduced by David Scherer 12 years ago but
which may get periodically lost.
Bruce Sherwood
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:54 PM, serwy wrot
The auto-saving feature only saves the one editor window, not all of
them. It is possible to lose unsaved work in yet-to-be executed code in
other editor windows.
Presently, PyShell.py and a few other extensions have code paths to
handle running with and without the subprocess. Requiring a sub