[Tutor] idle??

[Alan Gauld]

On 08/01/16 19:07, bruce wrote:

> Is IDLE essentially an ide for doing py dev? I see there's a
> windows/linux (rpms) for it.

Yes, its the official IDE for Python.

There is an "unofficial" version called xidle which tends
to get a lot of the new stuff before it makes it into the
official release. For a long time not much happened with
IDLE but recently there has been a bunch of activity so
I'm hopeful we may soon see some new features appearing.

> So, where does IDLE fit into this....

It incorporates a shell window where you can type commands
and you can create blank editor windows(with syntax
highlighting etc etc) from which you can save files,
run them, debug them etc.

There are some YouTube and ShowMeDo videos around and
Danny Yoo has a short tutorial that is quite old but
still pretty much applicable.

There is official documentation on the python.org
website too.

Finally, it's not universally loved and definitely has
some quirks but it's adequate for getting started,
definitely better than notepad, say, on Windows.

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