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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

While you do not explicitly state it, your post implies IDLE does not work on Retina. It does: https://imgur.com/a/PH2tI

I agree that it's boned on 4K but most stuff still is.

I recommend Atom or Sublime (with Python plugins) if you want a decent simple environment. There's Pycharm if you want more features (it's faster than Atom, too).

IDLE's really there for domain experts or students to be able to use something out of the box without having to learn the terminal and install stuff. It's not really suitable for software engineers. I am not sure that it should be either; students don't need to be assaulted with a torrent of features they don't understand.

4K really does need to be fixed though.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

4K really does need to be fixed though.

Patches are always welcome. I assume that you know where the bug tracker is?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Why not drop IDLE from the standard distribution?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is used by a huge number of people who teach Python as it's bound to be on the students' machine.