Message 347842 - Python tracker

Message347842

Author	andyharrington
Recipients	andyharrington, eryksun, jeff.allen, mark, ned.deily, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, steve.dower, terry.reedy
Date	2019-07-13.15:42:21
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Message-id	<1563032541.46.0.728067056979.issue22121@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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This is really important for newbies. They have no business being in the system Python folder. And Idle is for newbies! I was teaching an intro Python class, and tried to help a student who had been writing programs in Idle, but now could not get Python going. It took many minutes for me to discover that he had created a new file while the shell window had focus, and innocently saved the file as math.py, without looking for a new directory to put it in. What a pain tracking that down!

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This is really important for newbies.  They have no business being in the system Python folder.  And Idle is for newbies!

I was teaching an intro Python class, and tried to help a student who had been writing programs in Idle, but now could not get Python going.  It took many minutes for me to discover that he had created a new file while the shell window had focus, and innocently saved the file as math.py, without looking for a new directory to put it in.

What a pain tracking that down!

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2019-07-13 15:42:21	andyharrington	set	recipients: + andyharrington, rhettinger, terry.reedy, mark, ned.deily, serhiy.storchaka, jeff.allen, eryksun, steve.dower
2019-07-13 15:42:21	andyharrington	set	messageid: <1563032541.46.0.728067056979.issue22121@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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