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1 IDLE 3
Comes with all python versions, built in.
2 IDLE shell/interpreter
Default screen that opens when you run IDLE.
3 Editor
Once in IDLE, you can choose file new or file open in the menu to start editing a new (or existing) python program. The first time you run the program, it will ask you to save it.
3.1 Run
Once the program is run, you will see the output in the IDLE shell window. You can also "test"
first on python output colouring: The escape codes are entered right into the print statement.
print("\033[1;32;40m Bright Green \n")
The above ANSI escape code will set the text colour to bright green. The format is; \033[ Escape code, this is always the same 1 = Style, 1 for normal. 32 = Text colour, 32 for bright green. 40m = Background colour, 40 is for black.
This table shows some of the available formats;
TEXT COLOR CODE TEXT STYLE CODE BACKGROUND COLOR CODE Black 30 No effect 0 Black 40 Red 31 Bold 1 Red 41 Green 32 Underline 2 Green 42 Yellow 33 Negative1 3 Yellow 43 Blue 34 Negative2 5 Blue 44 Purple 35 Purple 45 Cyan 36 Cyan 46 White 37 White 47
colours are RGB so #ff0000 is red, #00ff00 is green, and #0000ff is blue
#ff00ff is purple
Changing colour themes to a custom theme by editing config-highlight.def in
/Users/zintis/.pyenv/versions/3.6.5/lib/python3.6/idlelib/
[IDLE emacsDark] comment-foreground = #DD0000 console-foreground = #EE4D4D error-foreground = #FFFFFF hilite-background = #7E7E7E string-foreground = #CC968D stderr-background = #171717 stderr-foreground = #FFB3B3 console-background = #171717 hit-background = #EFEFEF string-background = #171717 normal-background = #171717 hilite-foreground = #FFFFFF keyword-foreground = #FF8000 error-background = #C86464 keyword-background = #171717 builtin-background = #171717 break-background = #808000 builtin-foreground = #B800FF definition-foreground = #5E5EFF stdout-foreground = #00D0DC definition-background = #171717 normal-foreground = #0FD400 cursor-foreground = #FFD400 stdout-background = #171717 hit-foreground = #005090 comment-background = #171717 break-foreground = #FFFF00
See the "RBG-emacs-theme-for-python.pages" document