[theace]

So i have been trying to make a program to open a ready made program from one central program which i could do except i want to open it in idle so i can edit and add.

Ps. I just recently started to program in python and i only know the basics

[atraub]

I can't find any documentation that suggests IDLE can have an editor window with a file loaded into it programatically.

[Nallo]

Idle editor can be started from a shell

idle-python2.6 -e someprogram.py

(idle-python2.6 is the name for idle on my machine, it might be different on yours)

So it can be opened from a python program.

import os
to_open = "someprogram.py"
os.system("idle-python2.6 -e %s" %to_open)

There are some subtle problems though(that I don't really understand) when there is already an Idle shell open.

[theace]

thank you it worked perfectly

[atraub]

ahh I couldn't find the -e flag, good find.

[Nallo]

atraub, on 25 November 2012 - 06:48 AM, said:

ahh I couldn't find the -e flag, good find.

That is actually in the online documentation at http://docs.python.o...brary/idle.html at the very bottom />

Though I was helped by the fact that Ubuntu created their own man page for Idle (capital I) that probably doesn't exist on other *nix. Otherwise I might not have found it or not bothered to look it up.

This post has been edited by Nallo: 25 November 2012 - 01:18 AM