Is there any way to integrate IDLE into a Tkinter program as a widget? I have searched google for quite a while and have not come up with anything. Even a point in the right direction would be great. Thank you in advance for your replies.
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Is there any way to integrate IDLE into a Tkinter program as a widget? I have searched google for quite a while and have not come up with anything. Even a point in the right direction would be great. Thank you in advance for your replies.
Not sure how to do it, but you have the python idlelib library (in PythonXX/Lib/idlelib). Documentation is scarce but I found some people using classes from there. Main idle module in the library I think is pyshell (idle.py calls pyshell). You could start from there…
If as indicated in a comment you want to embed an interpreter shell into a tkinter program and you dont require the shell to be idle, you could embed an IPython shell. IPython gives you very nice tools. There is at least a tkinter application that embeds ipython. Here you have the code.
Update:
The above link to the ipython wiki is currently broken.
You can find the code in josePhoenix github repository (see comment below)