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- [See end for tips.]
-
- Click on the dotted line at the top of a menu to "tear it off": a
- separate window containing the menu is created.
-
- File menu:
-
- New window -- create a new editing window
- Open... -- open an existing file
- Open module... -- open an existing module (searches sys.path)
- Class browser -- show classes and methods in current file
- Path browser -- show sys.path directories, modules, classes
- and methods
- ---
- Save -- save current window to the associated file (unsaved
- windows have a * before and after the window title)
-
- Save As... -- save current window to new file, which becomes
- the associated file
- Save Copy As... -- save current window to different file
- without changing the associated file
- ---
- Close -- close current window (asks to save if unsaved)
- Exit -- close all windows and quit IDLE (asks to save if unsaved)
-
- Edit menu:
-
- Undo -- Undo last change to current window (max 1000 changes)
- Redo -- Redo last undone change to current window
- ---
- Cut -- Copy selection into system-wide clipboard; then delete selection
- Copy -- Copy selection into system-wide clipboard
- Paste -- Insert system-wide clipboard into window
- Select All -- Select the entire contents of the edit buffer
- ---
- Find... -- Open a search dialog box with many options
- Find again -- Repeat last search
- Find selection -- Search for the string in the selection
- Find in Files... -- Open a search dialog box for searching files
- Replace... -- Open a search-and-replace dialog box
- Go to line -- Ask for a line number and show that line
- ---
- Indent region -- Shift selected lines right 4 spaces
- Dedent region -- Shift selected lines left 4 spaces
- Comment out region -- Insert ## in front of selected lines
- Uncomment region -- Remove leading # or ## from selected lines
- Tabify region -- Turns *leading* stretches of spaces into tabs
- Untabify region -- Turn *all* tabs into the right number of spaces
- Expand word -- Expand the word you have typed to match another
- word in the same buffer; repeat to get a different expansion
- Format Paragraph -- Reformat the current blank-line-separated paragraph
- ---
- Import module -- Import or reload the current module
- Run script -- Execute the current file in the __main__ namespace
-
- Windows menu:
-
- Zoom Height -- toggles the window between normal size (24x80)
- and maximum height.
- ---
- The rest of this menu lists the names of all open windows;
- select one to bring it to the foreground (deiconifying it if
- necessary).
-
- Debug menu (in the Python Shell window only):
-
- Go to file/line -- look around the insert point for a filename
- and linenumber, open the file, and show the line
- Open stack viewer -- show the stack traceback of the last exception
- Debugger toggle -- Run commands in the shell under the debugger
- JIT Stack viewer toggle -- Open stack viewer on traceback
-
- Basic editing and navigation:
-
- Backspace deletes to the left; DEL deletes to the right
- Arrow keys and Page Up/Down to move around
- Home/End go to begin/end of line
- Control-Home/End go to begin/end of file
- Some Emacs bindings may also work, e.g. ^B/^P/^A/^E/^D/^L
-
- Automatic indentation:
-
- After a block-opening statement, the next line is indented by
- 4 spaces (in the Python Shell window by one tab). After
- certain keywords (break, return etc.) the next line is
- dedented. In leading indentation, Backspace deletes up to 4
- spaces if they are there. Tab inserts 1-4 spaces (in the
- Python Shell window one tab). See also the indent/dedent
- region commands in the edit menu.
-
- Python Shell window:
-
- ^C interrupts executing command
- ^D sends end-of-file; closes window if typed at >>> prompt
-
- Command history:
-
- Alt-p retrieves previous command matching what you have typed
- Alt-n retrieves next
- Return while on any previous command retrieves that command
- Alt-/ (Expand word) is also useful here
-
- Syntax colors:
-
- The coloring is applied in a background "thread", so you may
- occasionally see uncolorized text. To change the color
- scheme, edit the [Colors] section in config.txt (or add a
- [Colors] section to ~/.idle).
-
- Python syntax colors:
-
- Keywords orange
- Strings green
- Comments red
- Definitions blue
-
- Shell colors:
-
- Console output brown
- stdout blue
- stderr dark green
- stdin black
-
- Other preferences:
-
- Most preferences can be changed by editing one of the
- configuration text files: config.txt (generic) or one of
- config-unix.txt, config-win.txt, config.mac.txt (platform
- specific). User-specific preferences can be stored in
- $HOME/.idle, which overrides the config*.txt files.
-
- To change keyboard bindings, edit Bindings.py
-
- Command line usage:
-
- idle.py [-c command] [-d] [-e] [-s] [-t title] [arg] ...
-
- -c command run this command
- -d enable debugger
- -e edit mode; arguments are files to be edited
- -s run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP first
- -t title set title of shell window
-
- If there are arguments:
-
- If -e is used, arguments are files opened for editing and
- sys.argv reflects the arguments passed to IDLE itself.
-
- Otherwise, if -c is used, all arguments are placed in
- sys.argv[1:...], with sys.argv[0] set to '-c'.
-
- Otherwise, if neither -e nor -c is used, the first
- argument is a script which is executed with the remaining
- arguments in sys.argv[1:...] and sys.argv[0] set to the
- script name. If the script name is '-', no script is
- executed but an interactive Python session is started; the
- arguments are still available in sys.argv.
-