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diff --git a/Tools/idle/README b/Tools/idle/README index 88b6052..56a72a2 100644 --- a/Tools/idle/README +++ b/Tools/idle/README @@ -1,3 +1,24 @@ +IDLE 0.1 - 10/16/98 +------------------- + +This is a *very* early preliminary release of IDLE, my own attempt at +a Tkinter-based IDE for Python. It currently has the following +features: + +- multi-window text editor with multiple undo and Python colorizing +- Python shell (a.k.a. interactive interpreter) window subclass +- debugger + +It requires Python 1.5.2, so it is currently only usable for PSA +members who have the latest 1.5.2 alpha release (a public beta release +is due shortly). + +Please send feedback to the Python newsgroup, comp.lang.python. + +--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) + +====================================================================== + TO DO: - "Recent documents" menu item @@ -77,3 +98,19 @@ Comparison to PTUI modularize examine go + +====================================================================== + +Notes after trying to run Grail +------------------------------- + +- Grail does stuff to sys.path based on sys.argv[0]; you must set +sys.argv[0] to something decent first (it is normally set to the path +of the idle script). + +- Grail must be exec'ed in __main__ because that's imported by some +other parts of Grail. + +- Grail uses a module called History and so does idle :-( + +====================================================================== |