taleinat / IDLE-Spoon

IDLE-spoon is a fork (spoon) of mainstream IDLE, which improves on existing features and adds new features. This is done while keeping in sync with mainstream IDLE, maintaining backwards compatibility with Python version since 2.3, and remaining simple and clean. See the Wiki for further info.

Clone this repository (size: 348.3 KB): HTTPS / SSH
$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/taleinat/idle-spoon/

First download the version you want from the Downloads page, or checkout the source directly via Mercurial. Then use one of the following:

Simple Method

  1. Find the "idlelib" directory of your Python installation. Under Windows this should be C:\Python26\Lib\idlelib (if you're using Python 2.6) Under Unix/Linux/OSX, ???
  2. Rename the existing "idlelib" directory (to back it up)
  3. Copy the downloaded "idlelib" directory to where the original was
  4. You're ready to roll! Just run IDLE as usual.

Less Hackish Method

  1. Download IDLE-Spoon and place the "idlelib" directory somewhere on your file system
  2. From the command line, run: "python path/to/idlelib/idle.py"

To make this easy in the future, try one of the following:

  • Create a shortcut or alias which runs the above command.
  • Add the directory in which you put the new "idlelib" directory (i.e. path/to from the above example) to system's PYTHONPATH environment variable. Now make your IDLE-Spoon shortcut run "python -m idlelib.idle".