What's New in IDLE 2.7.9?
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*Release data: 2014-12-07* (projected)
- Issue #16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new
information.
- Issue #3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu.
Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg.
Original patch by Tal Einat.
- Issue #16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires a
editor window with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise,
from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays
an error box. It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name
is entered and a module is opened, a corresponding browser is also opened.
- Issue #4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the
name you enter (even if your system does not display it). Some systems
automatically add .txt when type is Text files.
- Issue #21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module.
To match this, they are no longer pickled when running under Idle.
- Issue #22221: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second
line if the first line contains anything except a comment.
- Issue #17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python',
move version to end.
- Issue #14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear
when inseting or deleting lines.
What's New in IDLE 2.7.8?
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*Release date: 2014-06-29*
- Issue #21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav
Heblikar.
- Issue #18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.
- Issue #21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.
- Issue #21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav
Heblikar.
- Issue #12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key
bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.
- Issue #21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is
still in progress no longer closes Idle.
- Issue #18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.
- Issue #18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.
- Issue #18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.
What's New in IDLE 2.7.7?
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*Release date: 2014-05-31*
- Issue #18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin
consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files
as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests.
- Issue #21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation.
- Issue #21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width.
- Issue #20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars.
Patch mostly by Serhiy Storchaka.
- Issue #21029: Occurrences of "print" are now consistently colored as
being a keyword (the colorizer doesn't know if print functions are
enabled in the source).
- Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we
make it actually gives some help when clicked. Patch by Guilherme Sim�es.
- Issue #17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar.
Original patches by Edmond Burnett and Kent Johnson.
- Issue #20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line.
- Issue #19481: print() of unicode, str or bytearray subclass instance in IDLE
no more hangs.
- Issue #18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial
shell window is present.
- Issue #17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for
non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk.
What's New in IDLE 2.7.6?
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*Release date: 2013-11-10*
- Issue #19426: Fixed the opening of Python source file with specified encoding.
- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment
lines.
- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.
- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.
- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks
are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection
only includes complete lines.
- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py.
Original patches by Todd Rovito and Phil Webster.
- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as
changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a
test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal).
- Issue #18539: Calltips now work for float default arguments.
- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File".
Patch by Tal Einat, Roget Serwy, and Todd Rovito.
- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.
Initial patch by Bruce Frederiksen.
- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.
- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next".
Original patch by Sarah K.
- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.
Preliminary patch by Rajagopalasarma Jayakrishnan
See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests.
- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.
- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.
Patch by Guilherme Sim�es.
What's New in IDLE 2.7.5?
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*Release date: 2013-05-12*
- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.
- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".
- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().
- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.
Patch by Todd Rovito.
- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.
- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.
- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.
- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.
- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.
- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.
- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer
raises an exception.
- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.
- Issue #17390: Display Python version on Idle title bar.
Initial patch by Edmond Burnett.
What's New in IDLE 2.7.4?
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*Release date: 2013-04-06*
- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.
- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts
that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).
- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase
interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.
- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other
special characters in the file path.
- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.
- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by
Roger Serwy.
- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu
Patch by Todd Rovito.
- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog
ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.
- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.
Patch by Roger Serwy.
- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte
literals currently supported in Python 2.7.
- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing
options. Patch by Roger Serwy.
- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.
- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.
Original patch by Rog