What's New in IDLE 2.7.2?
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*Release date: 29-May-2011*
- Issue #6378: Further adjust idle.bat to start associated Python
- Issue #11896: Save on Close failed despite selecting "Yes" in dialog.
- <Home> toggle failing on Tk 8.5, causing IDLE exits and strange selection
behavior. Issue 4676. Improve selection extension behaviour.
- <Home> toggle non-functional when NumLock set on Windows. Issue 3851.
What's New in IDLE 2.7?
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*Release date: 07-03-2010*
- idle.py modified and simplified to better support developing experimental
versions of IDLE which are not installed in the standard location.
- OutputWindow/PyShell right click menu "Go to file/line" wasn't working with
file paths containing spaces. Bug 5559.
- Windows: Version string for the .chm help file changed, file not being
accessed Patch 5783 Guilherme Polo
- Allow multiple IDLE GUI/subprocess pairs to exist simultaneously. Thanks to
David Scherer for suggesting the use of an ephemeral port for the GUI.
Patch 1529142 Weeble.
- Remove port spec from run.py and fix bug where subprocess fails to
extract port from command line when warnings are present.
- Tk 8.5 Text widget requires 'wordprocessor' tabstyle attr to handle
mixed space/tab properly. Issue 5129, patch by Guilherme Polo.
- Issue #3549: On MacOS the preferences menu was not present
What's New in IDLE 2.6?
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*Release date: 01-Oct-2008*
- Issue #2665: On Windows, an IDLE installation upgraded from an old version
would not start if a custom theme was defined.
- Home / Control-A toggles between left margin and end of leading white
space. Patch 1196903 Jeff Shute.
- Improved AutoCompleteWindow logic. Patch 2062 Tal Einat.
- Autocompletion of filenames now support alternate separators, e.g. the
'/' char on Windows. Patch 2061 Tal Einat.
What's New in IDLE 2.6a1?
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*Release date: 29-Feb-2008*
- Configured selection highlighting colors were ignored; updating highlighting
in the config dialog would cause non-Python files to be colored as if they
were Python source; improve use of ColorDelagator. Patch 1334. Tal Einat.
- ScriptBinding event handlers weren't returning 'break'. Patch 2050, Tal Einat.
- There was an error on exit if no sys.exitfunc was defined. Issue 1647.
- Could not open files in .idlerc directory if latter was hidden on Windows.
Issue 1743, Issue 1862.
- Configure Dialog: improved layout for keybinding. Patch 1457 Tal Einat.
- tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows
of tabs. Patch 1612746 Tal Einat.
- Add confirmation dialog before printing. Patch 1717170 Tal Einat.
- Show paste position if > 80 col. Patch 1659326 Tal Einat.
- Update cursor color without restarting. Patch 1725576 Tal Einat.
- Allow keyboard interrupt only when user code is executing in subprocess.
Patch 1225 Tal Einat (reworked from IDLE-Spoon).
- configDialog cleanup. Patch 1730217 Tal Einat.
- textView cleanup. Patch 1718043 Tal Einat.
- Clean up EditorWindow close.
- Patch 1693258: Fix for duplicate "preferences" menu-OS X. Backport of r56204.
- OSX: Avoid crash for those versions of Tcl/Tk which don't have a console
- Bug in idlelib.MultiCall: Options dialog was crashing IDLE if there was an
option in config-extensions w/o a value. Patch #1672481, Tal Einat
- Corrected some bugs in AutoComplete. Also, Page Up/Down in ACW implemented;
mouse and cursor selection in ACWindow implemented; double Tab inserts
current selection and closes ACW (similar to double-click and Return); scroll
wheel now works in ACW. Added AutoComplete instructions to IDLE Help.
- AutoCompleteWindow moved below input line, will move above if there
isn't enough space. Patch 1621265 Tal Einat
- Calltips now 'handle' tuples in the argument list (display '<tuple>' :)
Suggested solution by Christos Georgiou, Bug 791968.
- Add 'raw' support to configHandler. Patch 1650174 Tal Einat.
- Avoid hang when encountering a duplicate in a completion list. Bug 1571112.
- Patch #1362975: Rework CodeContext indentation algorithm to
avoid hard-coding pixel widths.
- Bug #813342: Start the IDLE subprocess with -Qnew if the parent
is started with that option.
- Honor the "Cancel" action in the save dialog (Debian bug #299092)
- Some syntax errors were being caught by tokenize during the tabnanny
check, resulting in obscure error messages. Do the syntax check
first. Bug 1562716, 1562719
- IDLE's version number takes a big jump to match the version number of
the Python release of which it's a part.
What's New in IDLE 1.2?
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*Release date: 19-SEP-2006*
What's New in IDLE 1.2c1?
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*Release date: 17-AUG-2006*
- File menu hotkeys: there were three 'p' assignments. Reassign the
'Save Copy As' and 'Print' hotkeys to 'y' and 't'. Change the
Shell hotkey from 's' to 'l'.
- IDLE honors new quit() and exit() commands from site.py Quitter() object.
Patch 1540892, Jim Jewett
- The 'with' statement is now a Code Context block opener.
Patch 1540851, Jim Jewett
- Retrieval of previous shell command was not always preserving indentation
(since 1.2a1) Patch 1528468 Tal Einat.
- Changing tokenize (39046) to detect dedent broke tabnanny check (since 1.2a1)
- ToggleTab dialog was setting indent to 8 even if cancelled (since 1.2a1).
- When used w/o subprocess, all exceptions were preceded by an error
message claiming they were IDLE internal errors (since 1.2a1).
What's New in IDLE 1.2b3?
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*Release date: 03-AUG-2006*
- Bug #1525817: Don't truncate short lines in IDLE's tool tips.
- Bug #1517990: IDLE keybindings on MacOS X now work correctly
- Bug #1517996: IDLE now longer shows the default Tk menu when a
path browser, class browser or debugger is the frontmost window on MacOS X
- EditorWindow.test() was failing. Bug 1417598
- EditorWindow failed when used stand-alone if sys.ps1 not set.
Bug 1010370 Dave Florek
- Tooltips failed on new-syle class __init__ args. Bug 1027566 Loren Guthrie
- Avoid occasional failure to detect closing paren properly.
Patch 1407280 Tal Einat
- Rebinding Tab key was inserting 'tab' instead of 'Tab'. Bug 1179168.
- Colorizer now handles #<builtin> correctly, also unicode strings and
'as' keyword in comment directly following import command. Closes 1325071.
Patch 1479219 Tal Einat
What's New in IDLE 1.2b2?
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*Release date: 11-JUL-2006*
What's New in IDLE 1.2b1?
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*Release date: 20-JUN-2006*
What's New in IDLE 1.2a2?
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*Release date: 27-APR-2006*
What's New in IDLE 1.2a1?
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*Release date: 05-APR-2006*
- Patch #1162825: Support non-ASCII characters in IDLE window titles.
- Source file f.flush() after writing; trying to avoid lossage if user
kills GUI.
- Options / Keys / Advanced dialog made functional. Also, allow binding
of 'movement' keys.
- 'syntax' patch adds improved calltips and a new class attribute listbox.
MultiCall module allows binding multiple actions to an event.
Patch 906702 Noam Raphael
- Better indentation after first line of string continuation.
IDLEfork Patch 681992, Noam Raphael
- Fixed CodeContext alignment problem, following suggestion from Tal Einat.
- Increased performance in CodeContext extension Patch 936169 Noam Raphael
- Mac line endings were incorrect when pasting code from some browsers
when using X11 and the Fink distribution. Python Bug 1263656.
- <Enter> when cursor is on a previous command retrieves that command. Instead
of replacing the input line, the previous command is now appended to the
input line. Indentation is preserved, and undo is enabled.
Patch 1196917 Jeff Shute
- Clarify "tab/space" Error Dialog and "Tab Width" Dialog associated with
the Untabify command.
- Corrected "