Re: [Python-Dev] If you shadow a module in the standard library that IDLE depends on, bad things happen

Laura, I think what you want should actually be more-or-less doable in IDLE. The main routine that starts IDLE should be able to detect if it starts correctly (something unlikely to happen if a significant stdlib module is shadowed), watch for an attribute error of that form and try to determine

Re: [Python-Dev] If you shadow a module in the standard library that IDLE depends on, bad things happen

> Need I submit a bug report/feature request to get this happening? > Very, very pleased to have mentioned it … I took care of the bug report. Glad you mentioned it. My personal opinion is that many of the error messages in IDLE (to say nothing of large parts of the overall user experience) are

[Python-Dev] modernizing IDLE

Just wanted to share some documentation I’ve put together (and a snapshot of the code) on the effort to improve the appearance and behaviour of IDLE: http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial/idle.html (There’s also currently a post on Hacker News about t