Re: running IDLE from another program?
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Re: running IDLE from another program?

From: Kent Johnson <kent@kentsjohnson.com>
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 21:14:17 CEST

John Salerno wrote:
> If I want to write my code in a separate text editor (I like UltraEdit)
> but then press a single button to have that code run in the IDLE
> environment, is that possible? I know that you can configure UE to run
> external tools, but I can't figure out how to run IDLE this way, because
> when I check on its properties to find it's file path, it is just the
> Python directory itself.

You probably don't need to do that. Just run the file in python
directly. I don't know UE, but when you configure an external tool, tell
it to run python.exe and pass the current file as a command line parameter.

Kent
Received on Sun Apr 30 21:48:51 2006