IDLE

{{Short description|Integrated development environment for Python}}

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| name = IDLE

| title = IDLE

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| screenshot = Python's IDLE.png

| caption = IDLE in action under Ubuntu: shell with highlights settings

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| author = Guido van Rossum

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| released = {{Start date and age|1998|12|22}}

| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|edit|reference|P348}}

| latest release date = {{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P577}}}}

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| programming language = Python

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| genre = Integrated development environment

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| website = {{URL|https://docs.python.org/library/idle.html}}

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IDLE (short for Integrated Development and Learning Environment)From the Help > About screen{{Cite web |url=https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html |title=IDLE — Python 3.9.5 documentation |access-date=2020-06-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604195234/https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html |archive-date=2020-06-04 }} is an integrated development environment for Python, which has been bundled with the default implementation of the language since 1.5.2b1.[https://lwn.net/1998/1119/idle.html Subject: IDLE 0.1 -- a Python IDE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180925142146/https://lwn.net/1998/1119/idle.html |date=2018-09-25 }}, By Guido van Rossum - 16 Nov 1998 - comp.lang.python, 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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20191101181226/https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/tip/Lib/idlelib/HISTORY.txt IDLE 0.1 was distributed with the Python 1.5.2b1 release on 12/22/98.], From: \Python-1.5.2\Tools\idle\NEWS.txt It is packaged as an optional part of the Python packaging with many Linux distributions. It is completely written in Python and the Tkinter GUI toolkit (wrapper functions for Tcl/Tk).

IDLE is intended to be a simple IDE and suitable for beginners, especially in an educational environment. To that end, it is cross-platform, and avoids feature clutter.

According to the included README, its main features are:

• Multi-window text editor with syntax highlighting, autocompletion, smart indent and other features.
• Python shell with syntax highlighting.
• Integrated debugger with stepping, persistent breakpoints, and call stack visibility.

Author Guido van Rossum says IDLE stands for "Integrated Development and Learning Environment",{{Cite web|title=IDLE — Python 3.9.2 documentation|url=https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html|access-date=2021-02-26|website=docs.python.org}} and since Van Rossum named the language Python after the British comedy group Monty Python, the name IDLE was probably also chosen partly to honor Eric Idle, one of Monty Python's founding members.Lutz, Mark & Ascher, David (2004). Learning Python, p. 40. O'Reilly Media, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-596-00281-7}}.{{cite book |last1=Hammond |first1=Mark |last2=Robinson |first2=Andy |title=Python programming on Win32 |date=2000 |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc.|isbn=978-1-56592-621-9 |page=59 |edition=1. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fzUCGtyg0MMC&pg=PA59}}