[Python-Dev] IDLE in the stdlib (original) (raw)

francis francismb at email.de
Fri Mar 22 19:51:34 CET 2013

You can use idle from the command line almost as easily as the CP interpreter: 'python -m idlelib' instead of just 'python' (I just tried it to verify). Unlike bare 'python', IDLE includes a grep. Right click on any 'hit' and it opens the file at the specified line. Unlike bare 'python', you can run tests and collect the all the output, from as many tests as you want, in a dynamically right-sized buffer. I'm just getting:

~$ python2.7 -m idlelib /usr/bin/python2.7: No module named idlelib.main; 'idlelib' is a package and cannot be directly executed

Same with python3...

...but thank you for talking about IDLE (the possibility of reediting and using history it so easy that I'm going to give it a try at least when I'm on windows...)

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