idle(1)

NAME

   IDLE - An Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python

SYNTAX

   idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] [ file ...]

   idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] ( -c cmd | -r file ) [ arg ...]

   idle [ -dins ] [ -t title ] - [ arg ...]

DESCRIPTION

   This  manual page documents briefly the idle command.  This manual page
   was written for Debian because the original program  does  not  have  a
   manual page.  For more information, refer to IDLE's help menu.

   IDLE is an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python. IDLE is based
   on Tkinter, Python's bindings to the Tk widget set. Features  are  100%
   pure  Python, multi-windows with multiple undo and Python colorizing, a
   Python shell window subclass, a debugger. IDLE is cross-platform,  i.e.
   it works on all platforms where Tk is installed.

OPTIONS

   -h     Print this help message and exit.

   -n     Run IDLE without a subprocess (see Help/IDLE Help for details).

   The following options will override the IDLE 'settings' configuration:

   -e     Open an edit window.

   -i     Open a shell window.

   The following options imply -i and will open a shell:

   -c cmd Run the command in a shell, or

   -r file
          Run script from file.

   -d     Enable the debugger.

   -s     Run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP before anything else.

   -t title
          Set title of shell window.

   A default edit window will be bypassed when -c, -r, or - are used.

   [arg]*  and  [file]*  are  passed to the command (-c) or script (-r) in
   sys.argv[1:].

EXAMPLES

   idle   Open an edit window or shell depending on IDLE's configuration.

   idle foo.py foobar.py
          Edit the files, also open a shell if configured  to  start  with
          shell.

   idle -est "Baz" foo.py
          Run  $IDLESTARTUP  or  $PYTHONSTARTUP,  edit  foo.py, and open a
          shell window with the title "Baz".

   idle -c "import sys; print sys.argv" "foo"
          Open a shell  window  and  run  the  command,  passing  "-c"  in
          sys.argv[0] and "foo" in sys.argv[1].

   idle -d -s -r foo.py "Hello World"
          Open  a shell window, run a startup script, enable the debugger,
          and run foo.py,  passing  "foo.py"  in  sys.argv[0]  and  "Hello
          World" in sys.argv[1].

   echo "import sys; print sys.argv" | idle - "foobar"
          Open  a  shell  window,  run  the script piped in, passing '' in
          sys.argv[0] and "foobar" in sys.argv[1].

SEE ALSO

   python(1).

AUTHORS

   Various.

                           21 September 2004                       IDLE(1)

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