Now open the file with your default text editor.

Now, navigate to the folder where you saved the contents of this repository.

Enter the file's name and the extension and press enter.

In the shell, you will be presented with a list of file extensions and then and an instruction to save your file.

Type something in the text box and click on 'Save As'

You will be presented with a text box and a save button.

You should see a window that says 'Python Text Editor'.

Launch 'Text Editor.py' in IDLE for Python 3.6 or later. Extract the contents of the file into one folder.

Clone this repository by clicking here.

The same text comes out in macOS TextEdit too.

Here is a demonstration of this repository. Notice how the result of our program was displayed after the RESTART line.This repository is a template to create your own code/text editor that will suite your needs. The result will be printed in the IDLE shell window: To run your code, click Run > Run Module (or press F5): This opens up a window where you can type your code:īefore running your code, you will need to save it in a file ( File > Save). You can start the editor by selecting File > New File: Instead, Python IDLE comes with its own built-in text editor that you can use to write and save your code. You can write your code after the > prompt and it will be executed when you press Enter:Īlthough the shell window is useful for executing one-line commands, you will not use it to write full-fledged programs. Once started, it will display some useful information about the Python version and the operating system:

In Windows 8 and higher versions, you can start it by typing IDLE from the Start menu. The Python IDLE is usually present as an entry in the Start button menu in Windows 7.

auto-indent and unindent for Python code.

command history and syntax colorization.

It is portable and can be run on all major platforms, such as Windows, Linux, Mac OS, etc. It supports the following features: IDLE is actually a Python program that uses the standard library’s tkinter GUI toolkit to build its windows. It enables you to edit, run, and debug Python programs in a simple GUI environment. This GUI is free and installed automatically during the Python installation. The Python IDLE ( Integrated DeveLopment Environment) editor is a graphical user interface for Python development.

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