Version 1.22 - released 2022-01-15

IdleX works with Python 3.4+.

Its website and download information can be found at: http://idlex.sourceforge.net

Installing IdleX

This is optional. You may run idlex.py directly without installing.

python setup.py install --user

Running IdleX

If IdleX is installed, you can launch it with:

python -m idlexlib.launch

On Windows:

1. Extract the contents of the idlex-x.x.zip file.
2. Double-click "idlex.py" to launch IdleX.
3. Run "scripts/EditWithIdleX.py" if you want 'Edit with IdleX' in the right-click context menu.

On Linux/MacOS:

1. Open a terminal.
2. Change into the idlex directory.
3. Run: $ python idlex.py

Demos

The "demos" directory has several .py files that detail the functionality of some of these extensions.

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements may be found in idlexlib/ACKS.txt

History

IdleX started as a set of extensions in 2008, beginning with my first Python patch: issue2704 (which is still open). I packaged and released a set of extensions in 2011, working on top of IDLE that shipped with Python 2.6 and 3.2.

PEP434 allowed for IDLE to receive updates without the strict requirements of a standard library module. Python 3.6 contained a patch which renamed the internals of idlelib (see issue24225), which required IdleX to become a fork from the 3.5 branch.