| IDLE | |
|---|---|
 IDLE in action under Ubuntu: shell with highlights settings | |
| Original author | Guido van Rossum |
| Initial release | December 22, 1998; 27 years ago (1998-12-22) |
| Stable release | |
| Written in | Python |
| Type | Integrated development environment |
| Website | docs |
| Repository | |
IDLE (short forIntegrated Development and Learning Environment)[2][3] is anintegrated development environment forPython, which has been bundled with the default implementation of the language since 1.5.2b1.[4][5] It is packaged as an optional part of the Python packaging with manyLinux distributions. It is completely written in Python and theTkinter GUI toolkit (wrapper functions forTcl/Tk).
IDLE is intended to be a simpleIDE and suitable for beginners,[citation needed] especially in an educational environment. To that end, it is cross-platform[6], and avoids feature clutter.
According to the includedREADME and theonline IDLE documentation[7], its main features are:
AuthorGuido van Rossum says IDLE stands for "Integrated Development and Learning Environment",[7] and since Van Rossum named the language Python after the British comedy groupMonty Python, the name IDLE was probably also chosen partly to honorEric Idle, one of Monty Python's founding members.[8][9]
At the conference I mentioned a few times that I was working on a Tkinter-based IDE for Python. I've decided to use the paradigm "release early and often" for this piece of software (especially since I don't expect I'll have much time to work on it), so version 0.1 (essentially a dump of my directory) is now sitting in the contrib directory ftp.python.org.
cross-platform: works mostly the same on Windows, Unix, and macOS
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