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Author terry.reedy
Recipients dstufft, rhettinger, terry.reedy
Date 2015-02-28.23:20:49
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Raymond, I have had a very vague idea of doing something like this.  Thanks for posting something more concrete.  I share the sentiments of your last sentence.

Reading Stackoverflow, it is apparent that some people with two+ Python versions do not know that a package must be installed for each version of Python, and have less idea how to install for the non-default version.  (All I know is to cd to pythonxy, or maybe pythonxy/scripts and run pip from there, or something like that.)  Running from Idle (x.y) would take of this.

Donald: at Raymond's behest, Idle now has a menu entry to run turtledemo, a separate application that is useful to beginners, in part to make turtledemo more visible. pip_gui could easily follow the same model.  No direct interaction with the Idle shell or edit windows is needed.  If you are less familiar with tkinter than I am, I would help with the gui part.  As hinted above, I am not the one to decide on menu options and write the implementation functions.
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