[Tutor] idle??

[bruce]

Thanks Alan...

So, as an IDE/shell.. I assume it's not quite Eclipse, butallows you
to do reasonable editing/snyax tracking/etc.. as well as run apps
within the window/shell.. I assume breakpoints as well, and a good
chunk of the rest of the usual IDE functions...

What about function completion? Where I type a function.. and it
displays a "list" of potential function/defs ? Does it provide
"function" or item hoovering. where cursor can be placed of a
function/item and information about the func, or item
(type/struct/etc..) is displayed?

Thanks again' much appreciated!!




On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 6:42 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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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