Windows search for idle click 'enter' idle shell appears click options in idle shell click configure idle a new window appears click the 'windows' tab click 'open edit window' next time you open idle, the edit window will appear. The idle shell window is not the same as a terminal shell (e.g The easiest way to run a script in idle is to use the open command from the file menu (this may vary a bit depending on which platform you are running) to load your script file into an idle editor window and then use the run. Install python modules/package using idle on windows asked 10 years, 11 months ago modified 2 years, 2 months ago viewed 217k times Long answer this answer assumes python 3 There are a few different virtual environment managers, each of which has a slightly different way of handling where python is installed and how it's run, as detailed in this answer
This answer assumes the venv module is used, and that it was installed following. For running python 2, all i do is activate the required conda environment and just type idle It automatically opens idle for python 2.7 But i can't figure out how to do this for python 3 You need a different solution if you launch idle from a command line in terminal. In the python 3.11 folder in applications, open the idle.app application bundle by right clicking it and selecting show package contents
This is the bootstrap script for idle as an application bundle. you will need sudo to edit this file. If running idle.pyw directly doesn't work, then probably the file association is wrong Make sure that assoc.pyw is set to python.noconfile and that the command for ftype python.noconfile has the args %1 %* Prior to 3.3 the default command runs pythonw.exe (make sure it's the right version), and for 3.3+ it runs pyw.exe. What are the key differences between python's idle and its command line environment Idle looks nicer, of course, and has some kind of gui.moreover, is idle treated the same as the shell
Also, in windows 10 we can get an idle command by switching to the app installation of python 3 from the microsoft store
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