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Dumb beginner question; what is IDLE?

Andrew Cooke Andrew.Cooke at p98.f112.n480.z2.fidonet.org
Sun Jul 4 06:23:44 EDT 1999 
From: Andrew Cooke <andrew at andrewcooke.free-online.co.uk>

In article <377D8BFB.3700379 at afn.org>,
  Andy L Krietemeyer <afn08995 at 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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