IDLE (Python)
 IDLE in action under Windows: text editor with syntax highlight and interactive shell |
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| Original author(s) | Guido van Rossum[1] |
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| Initial release | 22 December 1998[2] |
| Stable release | 2.7 / July 3, 2010 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Integrated development environment |
| Website | www.python.org/idle |
IDLE is an integrated development environment for Python, which is bundled in each release of the programming tool since 0.1. It is not included in the Python package with many Linux distributions. It is completely written in Python and the Tkinter GUI toolkit (wrapper functions for Tcl/Tk).
According to the included README, its main features are:
- Multi-window text editor with syntax highlighting, autocompletion, smart indent and other.
- Python shell with syntax highlighting.
- Integrated debugger with stepping, persistent breakpoints, and call stack visibility.
IDLE is criticized for its non-standard keyboards shortcuts[citation needed] (unique to IDLE, with only a manual schema editor available) and lack of line numbering as an option.
IDLE stands for "Integrated DeveLopment Environment" as named by Guido van Rossum.[3][4] Python is also said to be named after the British comedy group Monty Python. Therefore, the name IDLE can be seen as an allusion to Eric Idle, one of the group’s founding members.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Subject: IDLE 0.1 -- a Python IDE, By Guido van Rossum - 16 Nov 1998 - comp.lang.python, At the conference I mentioned a few times that I was working on a Tkinter-based IDE for Python. I've decided to use the paradigm "release early and often" for this piece of software (especially since I don't expect I'll have much time to work on it), so version 0.1 (essentially a dump of my directory) is now sitting in the contrib directory ftp.python.org.
- ^ IDLE 0.1 was distributed with the Python 1.5.2b1 release on 12/22/98., From: \Python-1.5.2\Tools\idle\NEWS.txt
- ^ Subject: IDLE 0.2 -- Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python, From: Guido van Rossum, Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:35:25 GMT
- ^ Primer on Installing Python and VPython, Author: M. Haley
- ^ Lutz, Mark & Ascher, David (2004). Learning Python, p. 40. O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN 0596002815.
