nmichaud / fiddle

A Python editor

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.

Features

• 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)

Status

fiddle is currently in beta development so features may be removed or changed and things will be rough around the edges.

Installation

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.

Requirements

• Python 3.4
• PyQt4
• chardet - to guess file encodings
• autopep8 - to clean Python files formatting
• pyflakes - to check Python files for errors

License

fiddle is released under the MIT License, see LICENSE for more information.

Copyright (c) 2015 Aaron Kehrer