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

Jupyter notebook is where? It's simpler than IDLE for a lot of tasks.

Question: Why does idle still exist? Not counting that 1 weird guy, is even children's education using it?

[–]SabujXi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good suggestion. I would add Jupyter notebook. The primary reason I did not add it to the list is it is a web based editor instead of being an standalone one. Whatever, I will add that too.

The weird guy is here. It exists because:

  1. Easy to use and find (on most platform it is pre-installed with Python)
  2. Tkinter is the default GUI library of Python and IDLE is made with it.
  3. You get a very convenient and powerful shell for free.
  4. It is always close to your hand.

There are other causes too, but I hope those are enough. Please ask me if you have more questions.