<div dir="ltr">Weeble<span dir="ltr"></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
I'm certainly interested enough to give it a go, but I don't know a<br>
whole lot about Python development. I have managed (I think) to sync<br>
up and build a copy of trunk using Visual C++ Express 2008. I'm not<br>
really sure about how to make patches, but I'm not going to worry<br>
about that until I have actually made any useful changes.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Well, the nice thing about IDLE is that it is implemented in pure Python. This means you don't have to compile at all to make changes; just edit IDLE's code and run it.<br><br>IDLE's code is found under the Lib/idlelib directory where your Python library files are found. Under Windows this is found where you installed Python (C:\Python26 by default for Python2.6).<br>
<br>When working on IDLE it is useful to run it from the command line so you can see exception output etc. On windows, open a command prompt and run: C:\Python26\python.exe C:\Python26\Lib\idlelib\idle.py<br><br>Good luck!<br>
- Tal<br></div>