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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2015-09-23 07:52:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2015-09-23 07:52:18 (GMT) |
| commit | c7025c6265ce4538bb1657324258b778d2e70788 (patch) | |
| tree | 6e1547d6a4fb2ffdfacef0942827a0704fa5c7c6 /Doc/library | |
| parent | fea7fc1ab5b1b6803401940250ce347a6aef6080 (diff) | |
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Issue #25219: Update doc for Idle command line options.
Some were missing and notes were not correct.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/idle.rst | 31 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/idle.rst b/Doc/library/idle.rst index ecc7115..24914e4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/idle.rst +++ b/Doc/library/idle.rst @@ -504,27 +504,28 @@ 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 + idle.py [-c command] [-d] [-e] [-h] [-i] [-r file] [-s] [-t title] [-] [arg] ... + + -c command run command in the shell window + -d enable debugger and open shell window + -e open editor window + -h print help message with legal combinatios and exit + -i open shell window + -r file run file in shell window + -s run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP first, in shell window -t title set title of shell window + - run stdin in shell (- must be last option before args) If there are arguments: -#. If ``-e`` is used, arguments are files opened for editing and - ``sys.argv`` reflects the arguments passed to IDLE itself. +* If ``-``, ``-c``, or ``r`` is used, all arguments are placed in + ``sys.argv[1:...]`` and ``sys.argv[0]`` is set to ``''``, ``'-c'``, + or ``'-r'``. No editor window is opened, even if that is the default + set in the Options dialog. -#. Otherwise, if ``-c`` is used, all arguments are placed in - ``sys.argv[1:...]``, with ``sys.argv[0]`` set to ``'-c'``. +* Otherwise, arguments are files opened for editing and + ``sys.argv`` reflects the arguments passed to IDLE itself. -#. 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``. Running without a subprocess ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |