[Python-Dev] Re: What happened to Idle's extend.py?
Guido van Rossum
guido@digicool.com
Mon, 04 Jun 2001 17:03:35 -0400
> > Idle-0.3, shipped with Python 1.5.2 had an extend.py module that was
> > used to extend Idle. We've used this extensively, building entire
> > "applications" as Idle extensions.
> >
> > Now that we're moving to Python 2.1, we find the same old directions
> > for extending Idle (in extend.txt), but there appears to be no
> > extend.py in Idle-0.8.
> >
> > Does anyone know how we can add extensions to Idle-0.8?
It's simpler than before.
Extensions are now loaded simply by being named in config.txt (or any
of the other custom configuration files). For example, ZoomHeight.py
is a very simple extension; it is loaded because of the line
[ZoomHeight]
somewhere in config.txt. The interface for extensions is the same as
before; ZoomHeight.py hasn't changed since 1999.
I'll update extend.txt.
Can someone forward this to the original asker of the question, or to
the list where it was posted?
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)