| Guido van Rossum | b33f612 | 1999-01-08 17:26:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | IDLE 0.2 - 8 January 1999 |
| 2 | ------------------------- |
| 3 | |
| 4 | For news about this release, see the file NEWS.txt. |
| Guido van Rossum | a017777 | 1998-11-16 18:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 2927e78 | 1999-01-07 00:11:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | This is an early release of IDLE, my own attempt at a Tkinter-based |
| 7 | IDE for Python. It has the following features: |
| Guido van Rossum | a017777 | 1998-11-16 18:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 2927e78 | 1999-01-07 00:11:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | - 100% pure Python |
| Guido van Rossum | a017777 | 1998-11-16 18:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | - multi-window text editor with multiple undo and Python colorizing |
| 11 | - Python shell (a.k.a. interactive interpreter) window subclass |
| Guido van Rossum | 2927e78 | 1999-01-07 00:11:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | - debugger (not complete, but you can set breakpoints and step) |
| Guido van Rossum | 504b0bf | 1999-01-02 21:28:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | - works on Windows and Unix (probably works on Mac too) |
| Guido van Rossum | a017777 | 1998-11-16 18:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | |
| Guido van Rossum | f903898 | 1999-01-04 13:05:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | The main program is in the file "idle"; on Windows you can use idle.pyw |
| 16 | to avoid popping up a DOS console. Any arguments passed are interpreted |
| 17 | as files that will be opened for editing. |
| Guido van Rossum | 72fe085 | 1998-11-16 18:37:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 504b0bf | 1999-01-02 21:28:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | IDLE requires Python 1.5.2, so it is currently only usable with the |
| 20 | Python 1.5.2 beta distribution (luckily, IDLE is bundled with Python |
| 21 | 1.5.2). |
| Guido van Rossum | a017777 | 1998-11-16 18:34:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | |
| 23 | Please send feedback to the Python newsgroup, comp.lang.python. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) |