This article is about Python's Integrated Development Environment. For the IMAP feature for active email notification, see IMAP IDLE. For cancer, see indolent lesions of epithelial origin. For other uses, see idle (disambiguation).
IDLE
IDLE in action under Ubuntu: shell with highlights settings
Original author(s)
Guido van Rossum
Initial release
December 22, 1998; 25 years ago (1998-12-22)
Stable release
3.11.0[1]
/ 24 October 2022; 18 months ago (24 October 2022)
Repository
github.com/python/cpython/tree/master/Lib/idlelib
Written in
Python
Type
Integrated development environment
Website
docs.python.org/library/idle.html
IDLE (short for Integrated Development and Learning Environment)[2][3] is an integrated development environment for Python, which has been bundled with the default implementation of the language since 1.5.2b1.[4][5] It is packaged as an optional part of the Python packaging with many Linux distributions. It is completely written in Python and the Tkinter GUI toolkit (wrapper functions for Tcl/Tk).
IDLE is intended to be a simple IDE and suitable for beginners, especially in an educational environment. To that end, it is cross-platform, and avoids feature clutter.
According to the included README, its main features are:
Multi-window text editor with syntax highlighting, autocompletion, smart indent and other.
Python shell with syntax highlighting.
Integrated debugger with stepping, persistent breakpoints, and call stack visibility.
Author Guido van Rossum says IDLE stands for "Integrated Development and Learning Environment",[6] and since Van Rossum named the language Python after the British comedy group Monty Python, the name IDLE was probably also chosen partly to honor Eric Idle, one of Monty Python's founding members.[7][8]
^"Python 3.11.0 is now available". 24 October 2022.
^From the Help > About screen
^"IDLE — Python 3.9.5 documentation". Archived from the original on 2020-06-04. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
^Subject: IDLE 0.1 -- a Python IDE Archived 2018-09-25 at the Wayback Machine, By Guido van Rossum - 16 Nov 1998 - comp.lang.python, At the conference I mentioned a few times that I was working on a Tkinter-based IDE for Python. I've decided to use the paradigm "release early and often" for this piece of software (especially since I don't expect I'll have much time to work on it), so version 0.1 (essentially a dump of my directory) is now sitting in the contrib directory ftp.python.org.
^IDLE 0.1 was distributed with the Python 1.5.2b1 release on 12/22/98., From: \Python-1.5.2\Tools\idle\NEWS.txt
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