From: Andrew Cooke <andrew@andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk>
In article <377D8BFB.3700379@afn.org>,
Andy L Krietemeyer <afn08995@afn.org> wrote:
> I've seen several references to IDLE. Is this an IDE for python? Or
> what is it? Thanks, Andy.
>
Yup. It has simple editing and debug support but no GUI builer or
"wizards". A kind of poor-mans emacs :-) although I must admit that
I use it rather than emacs for Python code. I'm not sure why -
I tried it and never changed back. The only thing I miss is not
having several windows on one piece of code (maybe this is possible,
I've never been able to do it). Also, the key bindings are a
compromise between emacs/Unix and Dev Studio/MS, so if you use all
three you can type the wrong thing at times....
It appears to be written in Tkinter, but has a very nice file browser,
which I keep intending to track down, but haven't, yet - but which
you can presumably use in other Tkinter apps.
Andrew
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