running IDLE from another program?

[Kent Johnson]

John Salerno wrote:
> If I want to write my code in a separate text editor (I like UltraEdit) 
> but then press a single button to have that code run in the IDLE 
> environment, is that possible? I know that you can configure UE to run 
> external tools, but I can't figure out how to run IDLE this way, because 
> when I check on its properties to find it's file path, it is just the 
> Python directory itself.

You probably don't need to do that. Just run the file in python 
directly. I don't know UE, but when you configure an external tool, tell 
it to run python.exe and pass the current file as a command line parameter.

Kent