4 IDLEfork is an official experimental fork of Python's Integrated
5 DeveLopment Environment IDLE. Worthwhile and successful changes and
6 additions will go back into the Python distribution's IDLE at some
7 later stage. There is no spanish inquisition.
9 As David Scherer aptly put it in the original IDLE fork README (below),
10 "It is alpha software and might be unstable. If it breaks, you get to
11 keep both pieces." One of the aims of IDLEfork now is for it to be able
12 to be uncompressed into its own directory and run from there, that way
13 you can play with (or hack on) IDLEfork without any further installation,
14 and entirely separately from your stable python IDLE distribution.
16 If you find bugs or undesired behaviour please code nifty patches and
17 submit them to the IDLEfork SourceForge patch manager, 8^) or let us
18 know about it in one of the appropriate fora. See the IDLEfork home
21 http://idlefork.sourceforge.net
23 for details on the various ways to give input to or contact the project.
25 Please see the files NEWS.txt and ChangeLog for more up to date
26 information on changes in this release of IDLEfork.
29 Thanks for trying IDLEfork,
31 <elguavas@users.sourceforge.net>
35 README from IDLE fork 0.7.1 :
36 =============================
38 EXPERIMENTAL LOADER IDLE 2000-05-29
39 -----------------------------------
41 David Scherer <dscherer@cmu.edu>
43 This is a modification of the CVS version of IDLE 0.5, updated as of
44 2000-03-09. It is alpha software and might be unstable. If it breaks,
45 you get to keep both pieces.
47 If you have problems or suggestions, you should either contact me or
48 post to the list at http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/idle-dev
49 (making it clear that you are using this modified version of IDLE).
53 The ExecBinding module, a replacement for ScriptBinding, executes
54 programs in a separate process, piping standard I/O through an RPC
55 mechanism to an OnDemandOutputWindow in IDLE. It supports executing
56 unnamed programs (through a temporary file). It does not yet support
59 When running programs with ExecBinding, tracebacks will be clipped
60 to exclude system modules. If, however, a system module calls back
61 into the user program, that part of the traceback will be shown.
63 The OnDemandOutputWindow class has been improved. In particular,
64 it now supports a readline() function used to implement user input,
65 and a scroll_clear() operation which is used to hide the output of
66 a previous run by scrolling it out of the window.
68 Startup behavior has been changed. By default IDLE starts up with
69 just a blank editor window, rather than an interactive window. Opening
70 a file in such a blank window replaces the (nonexistent) contents of
71 that window instead of creating another window. Because of the need to
72 have a well-known port for the ExecBinding protocol, only one copy of
73 IDLE can be running. Additional invocations use the RPC mechanism to
74 report their command line arguments to the copy already running.
76 The menus have been reorganized. In particular, the excessively large
77 'edit' menu has been split up into 'edit', 'format', and 'run'.
79 'Python Documentation' now works on Windows, if the win32api module is
82 A few key bindings have been changed: F1 now loads Python Documentation
83 instead of the IDLE help; shift-TAB is now a synonym for unindent.
86 ExecBinding.py Executes program through loader
87 loader.py Bootstraps user program
88 protocol.py RPC protocol
89 Remote.py User-process interpreter
90 spawn.py OS-specific code to start programs
93 autoindent.py ( bindings tweaked )
94 bindings.py ( menus reorganized )
95 config.txt ( execbinding enabled )
96 editorwindow.py ( new menus, fixed 'Python Documentation' )
97 filelist.py ( hook for "open in same window" )
98 formatparagraph.py ( bindings tweaked )
99 idle.bat ( removed absolute pathname )
100 idle.pyw ( weird bug due to import with same name? )
101 iobinding.py ( open in same window, EOL convention )
102 keydefs.py ( bindings tweaked )
103 outputwindow.py ( readline, scroll_clear, etc )
104 pyshell.py ( changed startup behavior )
105 readme.txt ( <Recursion on file with id=1234567> )
107 IDLE 0.5 - February 2000
108 ------------------------
110 This is an early release of IDLE, my own attempt at a Tkinter-based
113 For news about this release, see the file NEWS.txt. (For a more
114 detailed change log, see the file ChangeLog.)
118 IDLE has the following features:
120 - coded in 100% pure Python, using the Tkinter GUI toolkit (i.e. Tcl/Tk)
122 - cross-platform: works on Windows and Unix (on the Mac, there are
123 currently problems with Tcl/Tk)
125 - multi-window text editor with multiple undo, Python colorizing
126 and many other features, e.g. smart indent and call tips
128 - Python shell window (a.k.a. interactive interpreter)
130 - debugger (not complete, but you can set breakpoints, view and step)
134 The main program is in the file "idle.py"; on Unix, you should be able
135 to run it by typing "./idle.py" to your shell. On Windows, you can
136 run it by double-clicking it; you can use idle.pyw to avoid popping up
137 a DOS console. If you want to pass command line arguments on Windows,
138 use the batch file idle.bat.
140 Command line arguments: files passed on the command line are executed,
141 not opened for editing, unless you give the -e command line option.
142 Try "./idle.py -h" to see other command line options.
144 IDLE requires Python 1.5.2, so it is currently only usable with a
145 Python 1.5.2 distribution. (An older version of IDLE is distributed
146 with Python 1.5.2; you can drop this version on top of it.)
150 IDLE is covered by the standard Python copyright notice
151 (http://www.python.org/doc/Copyright.html).
155 (removed, since Guido probably doesn't want complaints about my
158 --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)