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IDLEfork README
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IDLEfork is an official experimental fork of Python's Integrated
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DeveLopment Environment IDLE. The biggest change is to execute
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Python code in a separate process, which is /restarted/ for each
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Run (F5) initiated from an editor window. This enhancement of
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IDLE has often been requested, and is now finally available,
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complete with debugger.
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There is also a new GUI configuration manager which makes it easy
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to select fonts, colors, and startup options.
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IDLEfork will be merged back into the Python distribution in the
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near future (probably 2.3), replacing the current version of IDLE.
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As David Scherer aptly put it in the original IDLEfork README,
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"It is alpha software and might be unstable. If it breaks, you get to
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keep both pieces."
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If you find bugs let us know about them by using the IDLEfork Bug
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Tracker. See the IDLEfork home page at
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http://idlefork.sourceforge.net
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for details. Patches are always appreciated at the IDLEfork Patch
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Tracker.
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Please see the files NEWS.txt and ChangeLog for more up to date
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information on changes in this release of IDLEfork.
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Thanks for trying IDLEfork.
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IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 0
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Introduced the new RPC implementation, which includes a debugger. The
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output of user code is to the shell, and the shell may be used to
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inspect the environment after the run has finished. (In version 0.8.1
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the shell environment was separate from the environment of the user
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code.)
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Introduced the configuration GUI and a new About dialog.
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Adapted to the Mac platform.
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Multiple bug fixes and usability enhancements.
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Known issues:
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- Can't kill a tight loop in the Windows version: Use the Task Manager!
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- Printing under Linux may be problematic.
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- The debugger is pretty slow.
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- RPC stack levels are not being pruned from debugger tracebacks.
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- Changelog and NEWS.txt are incomplete.
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