From 3960776228df9313db04f7dc0416a300cea42908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sateesh Kumar Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:36 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Added a paragraph on IDLE (Section Development Environment:Other Tools) --- docs/dev/env.rst | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/dev/env.rst b/docs/dev/env.rst index 304dba0..61c473d 100644 --- a/docs/dev/env.rst +++ b/docs/dev/env.rst @@ -213,6 +213,23 @@ This will prevent your virtualenvs from relying on your (global) site packages d Other Tools ::::::::::: +IDLE +---- + +`IDLE `_ is an integrated +development environment that is part of Python standard library. It is +completely written in Python and uses Tkinter GUI toolkit. Though IDLE +is not suited for full-blown development using Python , it is quite +helpful to try out small Python snippets and experiment with different +features in Python. + +It provides following features: + +* Python Shell Window (interpreter) +* Multi window text editor that colorizes Python code +* Minimal debugging facility + + IPython ------- @@ -248,4 +265,3 @@ BPython $ pip install bpython -