Recent changes to feature-requests

Enable package relative imports when running modules

Wolfgang Maier — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:29:24 -0000

Currently, attempts to run modules with relative import statements like:

from . import somemodule

fail with

SystemError: Parent module '' not loaded, cannot perform relative import

For saved files, however, it should be possible for IDLE to infer the meaning of . from the module's file path.
This would make for much more convenient editing and testing of package modules.

Wolfgang

Compile module menu option

jkamph — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:22:56 -0000

It would be very helpful to have a "compile module"
selection in the menu along with "import module" and
"check module" menu selection. This way people such as
myself who are frequent compilers and use the compiler
to iron out errors and problems in the code don't have
to run the script to find the errors. This would be
especially helpful in cases where a script makes system
changes that can only be run once and in order to
continue correcting the script after finding an error,
I wouldn't have to restart IDLE and begin anew. I
could just re-compile the script.

Turning off calltip

Seo Sanghyeon — Fri, 08 Aug 2003 19:30:23 -0000

http://groups.google.co.kr/groups?th=b3ede9088c1e1f71

Some users may not like calltips. As the google thread
above suggests, it must be possible to turn calltips off
from the configuratio dialog.

cannot reopen file easily

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:45:46 -0000

It is not possible to reopen a file in the editor if it is
changed from outside. You will have to close the editor
window and open the file again. Just open the file
in the editor will leave the contents unchanged.

Couple of feature requests

Guido van Rossum — Sun, 22 Jun 2003 08:18:15 -0000

- F5 should offer to save *all* files rather than just
the one.
It's hard to track down all files you've touched in a
larger
project.

- When the stackviewer can't open its window because
sys.last_traceback etc. aren't defined, it should pop up
a warning rather than just doing nothing.

- I like a way to re-run the last file on which I used F5
regardless of which window I am currently in (even the
shell). Use case: editing a large multi-module program,
the main program is a separate file that runs unit tests.
Suggestion: Ctl-F5.

Improve keyboard navigation

Brandon Corfman — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:03:43 -0000

Just a couple of simple requests:

1) The HOME key should toggle between taking you to the
start of a line (pos 0) and the first non-whitespace
character on a line. This is how Visual Studio works,
and it's very handy.

2) Along the same lines, if your cursor is in the
indented whitespace area on a code line, hitting
<CTRL>-<RIGHT ARROW> should take you to the _first_
word on the line. Right now, it takes you to the second
word, which is not intuitive.

ParenMatching Missing AutoIndent module

Nadav Horesh — Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:37:03 -0000

Three problems:
1. There is no access to ParenMatching from the
"Configure Idle" pannel.
2. One need to edit both the global configuration file
in idlelib or idleforklib, and the local configuration
file (in .idlerc, under linux) in order to enable this
option.
3. When ParenMatching is enabled, python complains
about missing AutoIndent module. I solved this problem
by copying AutoIndent.py from the idle directory.

Nadav.

F5 kills current run, starts another

Bruce Sherwood — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 21:50:52 -0000

For high interactivity, I want F5 to do what it did in the
original idlefork: kill the running (sub)process and start a
new run. To give a common example, suppose I've
written a VPython program and there is a graphics
window on the screen which I'm inspecting as I make
corrections to the program. Then I hit F5, and the
graphics window used to disappear and a new run start.

Configure autosave

Bruce Sherwood — Thu, 02 Jan 2003 21:46:47 -0000

It is important to me and my students to be able to
specify as a configuration option that autosave be in
effect. That is, when I press F5 and I have made
changes to the file, the file is overwritten with the current
version, with no dialog box intruding. The value of
autosave is that it reduces the likelihood of losing work
in case of an interruption, and the value of eliminating
the dialog box is that it increases interactivity and avoids
a loss of focus due to the intrusion. The goal is to make
full-program edit/run cycles as highly interactive as the
interactive shell. The practically infinite un-do capability
of IDLE makes autosave acceptable. And the
knowledgeable can always if desired save a copy at a
particular stage in the development process.

Relative address of Python Doc

Bruce Sherwood — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:23:40 -0000

When specifying additional help resources, it would be
very helpful, maybe even essential, to be able to
reference local Python Doc by relative addressing.
Consider specifically the Windows situation, where full
Python documentation is available at Python23
\Doc\index.html. The default installation is in fact
C:\Python23\Doc\index.html, but users may install the
Python23 directory anywhere, hence the need to be able
to refer somehow to either the Python23 directory or the
Python23\Doc directory without giving an absolute file
path.