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| author | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2015-09-24 00:02:25 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2015-09-24 00:02:25 (GMT) |
| commit | 328e1ecbce6745ba7aa3ad974ff34ef820f693cc (patch) | |
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Issue 25224: Augment Idle doc feature list and no-subprocess section
to finish making current README.txt obsolete.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/idlelib/help.html | 20 |
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diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/help.html b/Lib/idlelib/help.html index be4f52a..b2948a3 100644 --- a/Lib/idlelib/help.html +++ b/Lib/idlelib/help.html @@ -80,10 +80,15 @@ <ul class="simple"> <li>coded in 100% pure Python, using the <tt class="xref py py-mod docutils literal"><span class="pre">tkinter</span></tt> GUI toolkit</li> <li>cross-platform: works on Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X</li> +<li>Python shell window (interactive interpreter) with colorizing +of code input, output, and error messages</li> <li>multi-window text editor with multiple undo, Python colorizing, -smart indent, call tips, and many other features</li> -<li>Python shell window (a.k.a. interactive interpreter)</li> -<li>debugger (not complete, but you can set breakpoints, view and step)</li> +smart indent, call tips, auto completion, and other features</li> +<li>search within any window, replace within editor windows, and search +through multiple files (grep)</li> +<li>debugger with persistent breakpoints, stepping, and viewing +of global and local namespaces</li> +<li>configuration, browsers, and other dialogs</li> </ul> <div class="section" id="menus"> <h2>24.6.1. Menus<a class="headerlink" href="#menus" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> @@ -503,6 +508,15 @@ set in the Options dialog.</li> </div> <div class="section" id="running-without-a-subprocess"> <h3>24.6.4.2. Running without a subprocess<a class="headerlink" href="#running-without-a-subprocess" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> +<p>By default, Idle executes user code in a separate subprocess via a socket, +which uses the internal loopback interface. This connection is not +externally visible and no data is sent to or received from the Internet. +If firewall software complains anyway, you can ignore it.</p> +<p>If the attempt to make the socket connection fails, Idle will notify you. +Such failures are sometimes transient, but if persistent, the problem +may be either a firewall blocking the connecton or misconfiguration of +a particular system. Until the problem is fixed, one can run Idle with +the -n command line switch.</p> <p>If IDLE is started with the -n command line switch it will run in a single process and will not create the subprocess which runs the RPC Python execution server. This can be useful if Python cannot create |