[Idle-dev] multiprocessing module and IDLE without subprocess

[Tal Einat]

Weeble wrote:

>
> I'm certainly interested enough to give it a go, but I don't know a
> whole lot about Python development. I have managed (I think) to sync
> up and build a copy of trunk using Visual C++ Express 2008. I'm not
> really sure about how to make patches, but I'm not going to worry
> about that until I have actually made any useful changes.
>

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.

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).

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

Good luck!
- Tal
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