Since 2.7.13, only severe bugs are fixed on the 2.7 branch.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.17?

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*Release date: 2019-07-??*

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bpo-36807: When saving a file, call file.flush() and os.fsync()

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so bits are flushed to e.g. a USB drive.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.16?

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*Release date: 2019-03-02*

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bpo-31500: Default fonts now are scaled on HiDPI displays.

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bpo-34275: Make calltips always visible on Mac.

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Patch by Kevin Walzer.

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bpo-34120: Fix freezing after closing some dialogs on Mac.

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This is one of multiple regressions from using newer tcl/tk.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.13?

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*Release date: 2016-12-17*

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- Issue #27854: Make Help => IDLE Help work again on Windows.

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Include idlelib/help.html in 2.7 Windows installer.

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- Issue #25507: Add back import needed for 2.x encoding warning box.

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Add pointer to 'Encoding declaration' in Language Reference.

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- Issue #15308: Add 'interrupt execution' (^C) to Shell menu.

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Patch by Roger Serwy, updated by Bayard Randel.

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- Issue #27922: Stop IDLE tests from 'flashing' gui widgets on the screen.

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- Issue #17642: add larger font sizes for classroom projection.

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- Add version to title of IDLE help window.

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- Issue #25564: In section on IDLE -- console differences, mention that

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using exec means that __builtins__ is defined for each statement.

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- Issue #27714: text_textview and test_autocomplete now pass when re-run

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in the same process. This occurs when test_idle fails when run with the

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-w option but without -jn. Fix warning from test_config.

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- Issue #27452: add line counter and crc to IDLE configHandler test dump.

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- Issue #27365: Allow non-ascii chars in IDLE NEWS.txt, for contributor names.

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- Issue #27245: IDLE: Cleanly delete custom themes and key bindings.

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Previously, when IDLE was started from a console or by import, a cascade

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of warnings was emitted. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.12?

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*Release date: 2016-06-25*

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- Issue #5124: Paste with text selected now replaces the selection on X11.

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This matches how paste works on Windows, Mac, most modern Linux apps,

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and ttk widgets. Original patch by Serhiy Storchaka.

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- Issue #24759: Make clear in idlelib.idle_test.__init__ that the directory

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is a private implementation of test.test_idle and tool for maintainers.

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- Issue #26673: When tk reports font size as 0, change to size 10.

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Such fonts on Linux prevented the configuration dialog from opening.

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- Issue #27044: Add ConfigDialog.remove_var_callbacks to stop memory leaks.

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- In the 'IDLE-console differences' section of the IDLE doc, clarify

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how running with IDLE affects sys.modules and the standard streams.

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- Issue #25507: fix incorrect change in IOBinding that prevented printing.

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Change also prevented saving shell window with non-ascii characters.

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Augment IOBinding htest to include all major IOBinding functions.

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MARK in README.txt and open this and NEWS.txt with 'ascii'.

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Re-encode CREDITS.txt to utf-8 and open it with 'utf-8'.

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- Issue #26417: Prevent spurious errors and incorrect defaults when

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installing IDLE 2.7 on OS X: default configuration settings are

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.11?

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*Release date: 2015-12-06*

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- Issue 15348: Stop the debugger engine (normally in a user process)

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before closing the debugger window (running in the IDLE process).

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This prevents the RuntimeErrors that were being caught and ignored.

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- Issue #24455: Prevent IDLE from hanging when a) closing the shell while the

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debugger is active (15347); b) closing the debugger with the [X] button

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(15348); and c) activating the debugger when already active (24455).

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The patch by Mark Roseman does this by making two changes.

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1. Suspend and resume the gui.interaction method with the tcl vwait

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mechanism intended for this purpose (instead of root.mainloop & .quit).

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2. In gui.run, allow any existing interaction to terminate first.

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- Change 'The program' to 'Your program' in an IDLE 'kill program?' message

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to make it clearer that the program referred to is the currently running

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user program, not IDLE itself.

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- Issue #24750: Improve the appearance of the IDLE editor window status bar.

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Patch by Mark Roseman.

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- Issue #25313: Change the handling of new built-in text color themes to better

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address the compatibility problem introduced by the addition of IDLE Dark.

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Consistently use the revised idleConf.CurrentTheme everywhere in idlelib.

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- Issue #24782: Extension configuration is now a tab in the IDLE Preferences

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dialog rather than a separate dialog. The former tabs are now a sorted

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list. Patch by Mark Roseman.

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- Issue #22726: Re-activate the config dialog help button with some content

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about the other buttons and the new IDLE Dark theme.

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- Issue #24820: IDLE now has an 'IDLE Dark' built-in text color theme.

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It is more or less IDLE Classic inverted, with a cobalt blue background.

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Strings, comments, keywords, ... are still green, red, orange, ... .

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To use it with IDLEs released before November 2015, hit the

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'Save as New Custom Theme' button and enter a new name,

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such as 'Custom Dark'. The custom theme will work with any IDLE

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release, and can be modified.

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- Issue #25224: README.txt is now an idlelib index for IDLE developers and

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'IDLE' now means 'Integrated Development and Learning Environment'.

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- Issue #24820: Users can now set breakpoint colors in

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Settings -> Custom Highlighting. Original patch by Mark Roseman.

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- Issue #24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection

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background, as configured by users, on all systems. Found items are now

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- Issue #24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs

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affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.

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- Issue #24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger)

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now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.

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- Issue #24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua.

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Patch by Mark Roseman.

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- Issue #25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget.

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- Issue #25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help.

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* Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman).

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* Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor.

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* When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header

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- Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.

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- Issue #21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python.

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- Issue #22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor.

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- Issue #25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section.

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- Issue #25219: Update doc for Idle command line options.

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Some were missing and notes were not correct.

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- Issue #24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change.

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Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.

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- Issue #25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.

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- Issue #16893: Replace help.txt with help.html for Idle doc display.

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The new idlelib/help.html is rstripped Doc/build/html/library/idle.html.

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It looks better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released.

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The tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Mark Roseman.

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The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated.

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- Issue #24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6.

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- Issue #24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts).

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- Issue #23672: Allow Idle to edit and run files with astral chars in name.

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Patch by Mohd Sanad Zaki Rizvi.

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- Issue 24745: Idle editor default font. Switch from Courier to

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platform-sensitive TkFixedFont. This should not affect current customized

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font selections. If there is a problem, edit $HOME/.idlerc/config-main.cfg

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and remove 'fontxxx' entries from [Editor Window]. Patch by Mark Roseman.

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- Issue #21192: Idle editor. When a file is run, put its name in the restart bar.

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Do not print false prompts. Original patch by Adnan Umer.

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- Issue #13884: Idle menus. Remove tearoff lines. Patch by Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #15809: IDLE shell now uses locale encoding instead of Latin1 for

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.10?

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*Release date: 2015-05-23*

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- Issue #23583: Fixed writing unicode to standard output stream in IDLE.

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- Issue #20577: Configuration of the max line length for the FormatParagraph

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extension has been moved from the General tab of the Idle preferences dialog

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to the FormatParagraph tab of the Config Extensions dialog.

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Patch by Tal Einat.

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- Issue #16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new

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information.

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- Issue #23180: Rename IDLE "Windows" menu item to "Window".

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Patch by Al Sweigart.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.9?

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*Release date: 2014-12-10*

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- Issue #16893: Update Idle doc chapter to match current Idle and add new

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information.

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- Issue #3068: Add Idle extension configuration dialog to Options menu.

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Changes are written to HOME/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg.

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- Issue #16233: A module browser (File : Class Browser, Alt+C) requires an

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editor window with a filename. When Class Browser is requested otherwise,

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from a shell, output window, or 'Untitled' editor, Idle no longer displays

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an error box. It now pops up an Open Module box (Alt+M). If a valid name

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- Issue #4832: Save As to type Python files automatically adds .py to the

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name you enter (even if your system does not display it). Some systems

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- Issue #21986: Code objects are not normally pickled by the pickle module.

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- Issue #22221: IDLE now ignores the source encoding declaration on the second

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- Issue #17390: Adjust Editor window title; remove 'Python',

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move version to end.

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- Issue #14105: Idle debugger breakpoints no longer disappear

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.8?

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*Release date: 2014-06-29*

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- Issue #21940: Add unittest for WidgetRedirector. Initial patch by Saimadhav

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Heblikar.

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- Issue #18592: Add unittest for SearchDialogBase. Patch by Phil Webster.

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- Issue #21694: Add unittest for ParenMatch. Patch by Saimadhav Heblikar.

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- Issue #21686: add unittest for HyperParser. Original patch by Saimadhav

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Heblikar.

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- Issue #12387: Add missing upper(lower)case versions of default Windows key

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bindings for Idle so Caps Lock does not disable them. Patch by Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #21695: Closing a Find-in-files output window while the search is

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still in progress no longer closes Idle.

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- Issue #18910: Add unittest for textView. Patch by Phil Webster.

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- Issue #18292: Add unittest for AutoExpand. Patch by Saihadhav Heblikar.

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- Issue #18409: Add unittest for AutoComplete. Patch by Phil Webster.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.7?

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*Release date: 2014-05-31*

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- Issue #18104: Add idlelib/idle_test/htest.py with a few sample tests to begin

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consolidating and improving human-validated tests of Idle. Change other files

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as needed to work with htest. Running the module as __main__ runs all tests.

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- Issue #21139: Change default paragraph width to 72, the PEP 8 recommendation.

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- Issue #21284: Paragraph reformat test passes after user changes reformat width.

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- Issue #20406: Use Python application icons for Idle window title bars.

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- Issue #21029: Occurrences of "print" are now consistently colored as

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being a keyword (the colorizer doesn't know if print functions are

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enabled in the source).

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- Issue #17721: Remove non-functional configuration dialog help button until we

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- Issue #17390: Add Python version to Idle editor window title bar.

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- Issue #20058: sys.stdin.readline() in IDLE now always returns only one line.

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- Issue #19481: print() of unicode, str or bytearray subclass instance in IDLE

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no more hangs.

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- Issue #18270: Prevent possible IDLE AttributeError on OS X when no initial

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shell window is present.

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- Issue #17654: Ensure IDLE menus are customized properly on OS X for

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non-framework builds and for all variants of Tk.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.6?

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*Release date: 2013-11-10*

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- Issue #19426: Fixed the opening of Python source file with specified encoding.

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- Issue #18873: IDLE now detects Python source code encoding only in comment

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lines.

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- Issue #18988: The "Tab" key now works when a word is already autocompleted.

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- Issue #18489: Add tests for SearchEngine. Original patch by Phil Webster.

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- Issue #18429: Format / Format Paragraph, now works when comment blocks

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are selected. As with text blocks, this works best when the selection

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only includes complete lines.

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- Issue #18226: Add docstrings and unittests for FormatParagraph.py.

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- Issue #18279: Format - Strip trailing whitespace no longer marks a file as

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changed when it has not been changed. This fix followed the addition of a

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test file originally written by Phil Webster (the issue's main goal).

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- Issue #18539: Calltips now work for float default arguments.

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- Issue #7136: In the Idle File menu, "New Window" is renamed "New File".

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- Issue #8515: Set __file__ when run file in IDLE.

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- Issue #5492: Avoid traceback when exiting IDLE caused by a race condition.

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- Issue #17511: Keep IDLE find dialog open after clicking "Find Next".

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- Issue #15392: Create a unittest framework for IDLE.

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See Lib/idlelib/idle_test/README.txt for how to run Idle tests.

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- Issue #14146: Highlight source line while debugging on Windows.

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- Issue #17532: Always include Options menu for IDLE on OS X.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.5?

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*Release date: 2013-05-12*

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- Issue #17838: Allow sys.stdin to be reassigned.

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- Issue #14735: Update IDLE docs to omit "Control-z on Windows".

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- Issue #17585: Fixed IDLE regression. Now closes when using exit() or quit().

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- Issue #17657: Show full Tk version in IDLE's about dialog.

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- Issue #17613: Prevent traceback when removing syntax colorizer in IDLE.

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- Issue #1207589: Backwards-compatibility patch for right-click menu in IDLE.

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- Issue #16887: IDLE now accepts Cancel in tabify/untabify dialog box.

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- Issue #14254: IDLE now handles readline correctly across shell restarts.

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- Issue #17614: IDLE no longer raises exception when quickly closing a file.

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- Issue #6698: IDLE now opens just an editor window when configured to do so.

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- Issue #8900: Using keyboard shortcuts in IDLE to open a file no longer

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raises an exception.

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- Issue #6649: Fixed missing exit status in IDLE. Patch by Guilherme Polo.

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- Issue #17390: Display Python version on Idle title bar.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.4?

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*Release date: 2013-04-06*

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- Issue #17625: In IDLE, close the replace dialog after it is used.

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- IDLE was displaying spurious SystemExit tracebacks when running scripts

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that terminated by raising SystemExit (i.e. unittest and turtledemo).

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- Issue #9290: In IDLE the sys.std* streams now implement io.TextIOBase

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interface and support all mandatory methods and properties.

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- Issue #16829: IDLE printing no longer fails if there are spaces or other

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special characters in the file path.

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- Issue #16819: IDLE method completion now correctly works for unicode literals.

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- Issue #16504: IDLE now catches SyntaxErrors raised by tokenizer. Patch by

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Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #1207589: Add Cut/Copy/Paste items to IDLE right click Context Menu

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- Issue #13052: Fix IDLE crashing when replace string in Search/Replace dialog

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ended with '\'. Patch by Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #9803: Don't close IDLE on saving if breakpoint is open.

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Patch by Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #14958: Change IDLE systax highlighting to recognize all string and byte

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literals currently supported in Python 2.7.

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- Issue #14962: Update text coloring in IDLE shell window after changing

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options. Patch by Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #10997: Prevent a duplicate entry in IDLE's "Recent Files" menu.

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- Issue #12510: Attempting to get invalid tooltip no longer closes IDLE.

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Original patch by Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing

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even when parent window is closed. Patch by Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #14876: Use user-selected font for highlight configuration.

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Patch by Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window

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when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and

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has to use the built-in default key bindings.

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There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.

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- Issue #3573: IDLE hangs when passing invalid command line args

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(directory(ies) instead of file(s)) (Patch by Guilherme Polo)

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- Issue #5219: Prevent event handler cascade in IDLE.

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- Issue #15318: Prevent writing to sys.stdin.

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- Issue #13532, #15319: Check that arguments to sys.stdout.write are strings.

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- Issue #10365: File open dialog now works instead of crashing even when

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parent window is closed while dialog is open.

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- Issue #14018: Update checks for unstable system Tcl/Tk versions on OS X

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to include versions shipped with OS X 10.7 and 10.8 in addition to 10.6.

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- Issue #15853: Prevent IDLE crash on OS X when opening Preferences menu

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with certain versions of Tk 8.5. Initial patch by Kevin Walzer.

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What's New in IDLE 2.7.3?

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*Release date: 2012-04-09*

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- Issue #964437 Make IDLE help window non-modal.

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Patch by Guilherme Polo and Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #13933: IDLE auto-complete did not work with some imported

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module, like hashlib. (Patch by Roger Serwy)

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- Issue #13506: Add '' to path for IDLE Shell when started and restarted with Restart Shell.

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Original patches by Marco Scataglini and Roger Serwy.

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- Issue #4625: If IDLE cannot write to its recent file or breakpoint

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files, display a message popup and continue rather than crash.

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(original patch by Roger Serwy)

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- Issue #8793: Prevent IDLE crash when given strings with invalid hex escape

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sequences.

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- Issue #13296: Fix IDLE to clear compile __future__ flags on shell restart.

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(Patch by Roger Serwy)

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- Issue #14409: IDLE now properly executes commands in the Shell window

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when it cannot read the normal config files on startup and

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There was previously a bug in one of the defaults.

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