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I decided to try to get the IDLE environment working on the XO. I wanted an XO based Python IDE that I could use to show Python code, and which would allow intermediate level development directly on the XO. As Develop matures this will probably no longer be necessary. |
I decided to try to get the IDLE environment working on the XO. I wanted an XO based Python IDE that I could use to show Python code, and which would allow intermediate level development directly on the XO. As Develop matures this will probably no longer be necessary. |
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I have successfully istalled IDLE on my XO. However this document is a work in progress and may contain errors. This message will be removed when I'm confident in this document's essential accuracy. Hopefully this will be by about 7/25/08. |
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== What's already there == |
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Revision as of 00:00, 21 July 2008
IDLE is the default IDE for Python. The XO has a very limited Python viewer and editor Pippy. There is a more advanced environment Develop under development.
I decided to try to get the IDLE environment working on the XO. I wanted an XO based Python IDE that I could use to show Python code, and which would allow intermediate level development directly on the XO. As Develop matures this will probably no longer be necessary.
Warning:
I have successfully istalled IDLE on my XO. However this document is a work in progress and may contain errors. This message will be removed when I'm confident in this document's essential accuracy. Hopefully this will be by about 7/25/08.
What's already there
The Python 2.5 distribution that comes on the XO already contains IDLE. The IDLE library is located at /usr/lib/Python2.5/idlelib. The IDLE main module is idle.py.
So in a terminal window you ought to be able to
cd /usr/lib/python2.5/idlelib python idle.py
to fire it up.
This doesn't quite work. You'll get a message that tkinter is missing.