October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
736 pages
17h 39m
English
Content preview from Hands-On Software Engineering with Python
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IDLE
IDLE is a simple IDE, written in Python and using the Tkinter GUI, which means that it should run on pretty much anything that Python can run on. It is often, but not always, part of a default Python installation but even when it's not included by default, it's easily installed and doesn't require much of anything in the way of external dependencies or other languages runtime environments.
- Large-project support: Poor
- Refactoring support: Poor
- Language exploration: Good
- Code execution: Good
- Bells and whistles: Fair
Out of the box, IDLE doesn't provide any project management tools, though there may be plugins that provide some of this capability. Even so, unless there are also plugins available that allow for more than one file to be ...