| IDLEfork README |
| =============== |
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| IDLEfork is an official experimental fork of Python's Integrated |
| DeveLopment Environment IDLE. The biggest change is to execute |
| Python code in a separate process, which is /restarted/ for each |
| Run (F5) initiated from an editor window. This enhancement of |
| IDLE has often been requested, and is now finally available, |
| complete with debugger. |
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| There is also a new GUI configuration manager which makes it easy |
| to select fonts, colors, and startup options. |
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| IDLEfork will be merged back into the Python distribution in the |
| near future (probably 2.3), replacing the current version of IDLE. |
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| As David Scherer aptly put it in the original IDLEfork README, |
| "It is alpha software and might be unstable. If it breaks, you get to |
| keep both pieces." |
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| If you find bugs let us know about them by using the IDLEfork Bug |
| Tracker. See the IDLEfork home page at |
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| http://idlefork.sourceforge.net |
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| for details. Patches are always appreciated at the IDLEfork Patch |
| Tracker. |
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| Please see the files NEWS.txt and ChangeLog for more up to date |
| information on changes in this release of IDLEfork. |
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| Thanks for trying IDLEfork. |
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| IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 0 |
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| Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The |
| output of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to |
| inspect the environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1 |
| the shell environment was separate from the environment of the user |
| code.) |
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| Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog. |
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| Adapted to the Mac platform. |
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| Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements. |
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| Known issues: |
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| - Can't kill a tight loop in the Windows version: Use the Task Manager! |
| - Printing under Linux may be problematic. |
| - The debugger is pretty slow. |
| - RPC stack levels are not being pruned from debugger tracebacks. |
| - Changelog and NEWS.txt are incomplete. |