On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Roger Serwy <roger.serwy <at> gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

I have written a simple extension manager for IDLE and packaged several extensions with it. It can be found at: http://www.ews.illinois.edu/~ serwy/idlex/

The extension manager loads extensions without needing to modify config-extensions.def. This makes distributing extensions simpler.

The features include:

* Terminal-like behavior for PyShell. The cursor is confined to the prompt and up/down arrow keys navigate the command history, similar to the original Python interpreter.
* Matplotlib support for interactive figures when using the subprocess.
* Tabbed editor windows with drag'n'drop reordering.
* SubCodes, similar to Matlab cell mode and Sagemath cells, for quick code prototyping without restarting the shell.
* Integrated reindent.py support.
* Improved code navigation with Code Browser.
* Cython editing and execution support. (Version 0.15.1)
* Line numbers for the Editor.
* Clear PyShell Window without restarting PyShell.
* Simple interface for enabling/disabling extensions.
* SearchBar, Squeezer, and IDLE2HTML included. (Originally by Tal Einat, Noam Raphael, and Michael Haubenwallner)

Some of these extensions might be useful in the standard IDLE distribution.

- Roger

Way to go, Roger!

I'm glad you've released this so soon :)

I'm sure this will be useful for many people using IDLE, and will accelerate the acceptance of good extensions into the stdlib.

BTW, which versions of Python does this work with?