Newbie edit/compile/run cycle question

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Jeremy C B Nicoll a écrit :
> Simon Forman <sajmikins at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Dec 8, 6:45 pm, Jeremy C B Nicoll <jer... at omba.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Ah, I've been using IDLE so far (but would probably prefer to write
>>>Python in my normal text editor).  In IDLE Alt-X syntax checks the saved
>>>copy of the file being edited (at least it seems to), and I was
>>>wondering how to replicate that elsewhere.
>>
>>I don't know of a command line tool to do that, but I hasten to point
>>out that you have the source code of IDLE available so you could just
>>figure out what it's doing and encapsulate that in a script.
> 
> 
> I was afraid someone would suggest that.  Figuring out how IDLE works is a
> bit beyond me at this stage.

Did you try out, or is it just an a priori ?