"""IDLE.app Installation: see the install_IDLE target in python/dist/src/Mac/OSX/Makefile Usage: 1. Double clicking IDLE icon will open IDLE. 2. Dropping file on IDLE icon will open that file in IDLE. 3. Launch from command line with files with this command-line: /Applications/Python/IDLE.app/Contents/MacOS/python file1 file2 file3 """ # Add IDLE.app/Contents/Resources/idlelib to path. # __file__ refers to this file when it is used as a module, sys.argv[0] # refers to this file when it is used as a script (pythonw macosx_main.py) import sys from os.path import split, join, isdir try: __file__ except NameError: __file__ = sys.argv[0] idlelib = join(split(__file__)[0], 'idlelib') if isdir(idlelib): sys.path.append(idlelib) # Make sure True, False, bool() builtins exist. # - preserves 2.2 compatibility - 2.2.1 includes bool, 2.2 does not. # - important for Mac OS X because it ships python 2.2 import boolcheck # see if we are being asked to execute the subprocess code if '-p' in sys.argv: # run expects only the port number in sys.argv sys.argv.remove('-p') # this module will become the namepsace used by the interactive # interpreter; remove all variables we have defined. del sys, __file__, boolcheck, split, join __import__('run').main() else: # Load idlelib/idle.py which starts the application. import idle