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)