Re: [Python-Dev] [Visualpython-users] How VPython 6 differs from VPython 5

2013-01-14 Thread Bruce Sherwood
nows nothing about the wxPython interact loop. So I think the meaning of "sleep" is the usual meaning. Bruce Sherwood On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Bruce Sherwood > wrote: > > Here is detailed information on how VP

Re: [Python-Dev] [Visualpython-users] How VPython 6 differs from VPython 5

2013-01-14 Thread Bruce Sherwood
put parens around print arguments, and thereby make it irrelevant whether they used Python 2 or Python 3. Many thanks to the Python development community! Bruce Sherwood On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Mark Janssen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Bruce Sherwood > wrote: > > F

Re: [Python-Dev] [Idle-dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-12 Thread Bruce Sherwood
on of science and engineering students. I'll say again that IDLE/VIDLE is an excellent environment for novices. Issues identified here about look and feel etc. have just not been of any importance in that context. If you'll send me what you want from Scherer, I can contact him. Bruce Sherw

Re: [Python-Dev] [Idle-dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-11 Thread Bruce Sherwood
ad to hear from Martin that Guilherme is free to commit his important bug fixes and improvements. I'm afraid that neither Guilherme nor I understood the procedures and thought that we had to wait for others to act. Bruce Sherwood ___ Python-Dev mai

Re: [Python-Dev] [Idle-dev] Removing IDLE from the standard library

2010-07-11 Thread Bruce Sherwood
t with the clear understanding that this is the place to go for improvements to migrate into the standard distribution. Bruce Sherwood P.S. I'll add that IDLE has been EXTREMELY important for a large population of relatively casual users of Python, the thousands of science and engineering uni