Re: [Visualpython-users] What is IDLE?

[Andrew M. <mo...@tb...>]

Oops!!  I guess I should have looked more closely.   I was looking at the
"\tools\visual\" directory and the idle.bat was the only executable file
that I saw there, so naturally I assumed...   I was looking at the Windows
directory remotely, so I was just sort of trying to make an educated
guess.

Anyway, the reason I was looking at this was to try to run Vpython
(Windows version) with WINE on my redhat machine at school.  I haven't had
too much luck with compiling the source and getting it going as suggested
in the earlier thread.  I thought this might work, but so far, no go.

In case you're interested, Using WINE I have:

Installed Python2.0
Installed Vpython
Ran python.exe and pythonw.exe which both "exited with a successful
status"  (I don't know if that means that it worked or not, since I didn't
really get anything else.)

But, when trying to get python to run the idle.py WINE choked and died.

Oh well, back to recompiling, I guess.

Andrew
 

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> I don't recognize these behaviors. The VPython installer (used after 
> installing Python 2.0 on Windows) creates an icon on the desktop which when 
> doubled-clicked invokes C:\Python20\Tools\idle\idle.pyw, not idle.bat (I 
> don't know under what circumstances idle.bat would be of any use). A 
> similar shortcut to idle.pyw is listed on the Start menu under Python 2.0 
> as "IDLE (Python GUI)". The puzzle is, where did you find a shortcut to 
> idle.bat?
> 
> Invoking idle.pyw brings up an editing environment, "IDLE", which was 
> modified by Dave Scherer from the standard one distributed with Python 2.0. 
> This modified version has many nice features for rapid edit/run cycles. 
> Press F5 to run, and your file is automatically saved and a (safe) separate 
> process is spawned to run your program. Print output goes to a separate 
> scrolling window which nicely packages output from consecutive runs if you 
> don't deliberately kill that window. Pressing F1 gives you useful 
> documentation on Python and on the Visual module.
> 
> Bruce Sherwood
> 
> --On Tuesday, April 10, 2001 12:54 -0500 Andrew Morrison 
> <mo...@tb...> wrote:
> 
> > When I install on Windows, I get a shortcut to idle.bat which is in my
> > C:\Python20\Tools\idle directory.  Looking at the file, I see that it
> > calls the "start" program from \Windows\Command to execute the idle.pyw
> > file in the same directory.
> >
> > The reason I am curious, is that I would like to know what IDLE is, as far
> > as Windows is concerned.  Is there a way to get into IDLE by calling an
> > executable program that is in the \Python20 directory?  If there is, I
> > haven't figured out how to do it, and I'd be curious to know if it is
> > possible or not.
> 
> 
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