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PyShell: Added functionality:
usage: idle.py [-c command] [-d] [-i] [-r script] [-s] [-t title] [arg] ...
idle file(s) (without options) edit the file(s)
-c cmd run the command in a shell
-d enable the debugger
-i open an interactive shell
-i file(s) open a shell and also an editor window for each file
-r script run a file as a script in a shell
-s run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP before anything else
-t title set title of shell window
Remaining arguments are applied to the command (-c) or script (-r).
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idles: Removed the idles script, not needed
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idle: Removed the IdleConf references, not required anymore
Added a patch which modifies idlefork so that it can co-exist with
"official" IDLE in the site-packages directory. This patch is not
necessary if only idlefork IDLE is installed. See INSTALLATION for further
details.
The default behaviour of idlefork idle is to open an editor window instead
of a shell. Complex expressions may be run in a fresh environment by
selecting "run". There are times, however, when a shell is desired.
Though one can be started by "idle -t 'foo'", this script is more
convenient. In addition, a shell and an editor window can be started
in parallel by "idles -e foo.py".
The default behaviour of idlefork idle is to open an editor window instead
of a shell. Complex expressions may be run in a fresh environment by
selecting "run". There are times, however, when a shell is desired.
Though one can be started by "idle -t 'foo'", this script is more
convenient. In addition, a shell and an editor window can be started
in parallel by "idles -e foo.py".
"Move the action of loading the configuration to the IdleConf module
rather than the idle.py script. This has advantages and
disadvantages; the biggest advantage being that we can more easily
have an alternative main program." --GvR
"Amazing. A very subtle change in policy in descr-branch actually
found a bug here. Here's the deal: Class PyShell derives from class
OutputWindow. Method PyShell.close()
wants to invoke its parent method, but because PyShell long ago was
inherited from class PyShellEditorWindow, it invokes
PyShelEditorWindow.close(self). Now, class PyShellEditorWindow itself
derives from class OutputWindow, and inherits the close() method from
there without overriding it. Under the old rules,
PyShellEditorWindow.close would return an unbound method restricted to
the class that defined the implementation of close(), which was
OutputWindow.close. Under the new rules, the unbound method is
restricted to the class whose method was requested, that is
PyShellEditorWindow, and this was correctly trapped as an error." --GvR
"Taught IDLE's autoident parser that "yield" is a keyword that begins a
stmt. Along w/ the preceding change to keyword.py, making all this
work w/ a future-stmt just looks harder and harder." --tim_one
(From Rel 1.8: "Hack to make this still work with Python 1.5.2. ;-( "
--fdrake)
"Move the action of loading the configuration to the IdleConf module
rather than the idle.py script. This has advantages and
disadvantages; the biggest advantage being that we can more easily
have an alternative main program." --GvR
Steven M. Gava
Kurt B. Kaiser