On 2/29/2016 8:22 AM, alien2u...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Rustom,
F5 in Idle restarts the Python interpreter (that's what my impression is).
More exactly, IDLE runs user code in a separate process from the one
that runs the IDLE gui. Restarting means that the existing user process
is terminated and a new one started. This is easier than trying to
'clean up' the existing process.
If you start python with '> python' in a terminal, then restarting the
interactive interpreter means '>>> quit' at the interactive prompt
followed by "> python" in the console. You do the equivalent in IDLE
Shell with 'control-F6' or 'Shell -> Restart Shell.
F5 when editing path/file.py replaces the command 'python' with 'cd
path' followed by 'python -i file.py'
Maybe I should add something to the IDLE doc for people familiar with
using python in a console. (Most beginners are not.)
Whatever you have done earlier at Idle prompt (in Idle session)
> before F5 is gone after F5.
Yes, the same as if you quit(). A change I would like to make sometime
is to have F5 run the file is a new user process without killing the old
one, so one does not loose work done in Shell.
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