from __future__ import idle
fiddle is a Python code editor designed as an alternate to Python's default IDLE development environment. It is aimed at both beginning Python programmers just learning the language and experience Python developers that may not require a full IDE for simpler projects.
fiddle has been inspired by the IDLE Reimagined project.
- Interactive interpreter (Python shell)
- Tabbed file editor with code completion
- Easy access to built-in Python documentation (via pydoc)
- Quick search for errors
- Improved traceback information
- One touch code cleaner and code checker
- Easily switch between interpreters (including virtual environments)
fiddle is currently in beta development so features may be removed or changed and things will be rough around the edges.
There are Windows builds available for each release in a ZIP archive. These were built use cx_Freeze.
If you want to run the source directly, installation instructions for the three major systems are available here.
- Python 3.4
- PyQt4
- chardet - to guess file encodings
- autopep8 - to clean Python files formatting
- pyflakes - to check Python files for errors
Contributions to the development of fiddle are welcome from anyone. Here are a few ways to help out:
- There is an open mailing list at fiddle-discuss where we talk about all things related to fiddle.
- If you have found a bug please submit an issue
- If you would like to contribute code please base your feature branch off of
master
and make sure all tests pass before submitting a pull request
fiddle is released under the MIT License, see LICENSE for more information.
Copyright (c) 2015 Aaron Kehrer