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Debug menu:
JIT (Just-In-Time) stack viewer toggle -- if set, the stack viewer
automaticall pops up when you get a traceback.
Windows menu:
Zoom height -- make the window full height.
Help menu:
The help text now show up in a regular window so you can search and
even edit it if you like.
IDLE 0.1 was distributed with the Python 1.5.2b1 release on 12/22/98.
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The IDLE icons are from https://bugs.python.org/issue1490384
Created by Andrew Clover.
The original sources are available from Andrew's website:
https://www.doxdesk.com/software/py/pyicons.html
Various different formats and sizes are available at this GitHub Pull Request:
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17473
The idle.ico file was created with ImageMagick:
$ convert idle_16.png idle_32.png idle_48.png idle_256.png idle.ico
What's New in IDLE 2.7? (Merged into 3.1 before 2.7 release.)
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*Release date: XX-XXX-2010*
- idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental
versions of IDLE which are not installed in the standard location.
- OutputWindow/PyShell right click menu "Go to file/line" wasn't working with
file paths containing spaces. Bug 5559.
- Windows: Version string for the .chm help file changed, file not being
accessed Patch 5783 Guilherme Polo
- Allow multiple IDLE GUI/subprocess pairs to exist simultaneously. Thanks to
David Scherer for suggesting the use of an ephemeral port for the GUI.
Patch 1529142 Weeble.
- Remove port spec from run.py and fix bug where subprocess fails to
extract port from command line when warnings are present.
- Tk 8.5 Text widget requires 'wordprocessor' tabstyle attr to handle
mixed space/tab properly. Issue 5129, patch by Guilherme Polo.
- Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present
- IDLE would print a "Unhandled server exception!" message when internal
debugging is enabled.
- Issue #4455: IDLE failed to display the windows list when two windows have
the same title.
- Issue #4383: When IDLE cannot make the connection to its subprocess, it would
fail to properly display the error message.
- help() was not paging to the shell. Issue1650.
- CodeContext was not importing.
- Corrected two 3.0 compatibility errors reported by Mark Summerfield:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-December/011491.html
- Shell was not colorizing due to bug introduced at r57998, Bug 1586.
- Issue #1585: IDLE uses non-existent xrange() function.
- Windows EOL sequence not converted correctly, encoding error.
Caused file save to fail. Bug 1130.
- IDLE converted to Python 3000 syntax.
- Strings became Unicode.
- CallTips module now uses the inspect module to produce the argspec.
- IDLE modules now use absolute import instead of implied relative import.
- atexit call replaces sys.exitfunc. The functionality of delete-exitfunc flag
in config-main.cfg remains unchanged: if set, registered exit functions will
be cleared before IDLE exits.
What's New in IDLE 2.6
======================
*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*, merged into 3.0 releases detailed above (3.0rc2)