Integrated Development Environment

In computer science, an integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of a source code editor, a compiler and/or interpreter, build automation tools, and (usually) a debugger. Sometimes a version control system and various tools to simplify the construction of a GUI are integrated as well. Many modern IDEs also integrate a class browser, an object inspector and a class hierarchy diagram, for use with object oriented software development.
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IDLE is an Integrated DeveLopment Environment for python, which is bundled in each release of the programming tool since 2.3. It is completely written in python and the Tkinter GUI toolkit (wrapper functions for Tcl/Tk).According to the included README, its main features are:Multi-window text editor with syntax highlighting, autocompletion, smart indent and other.Python shell with syntax highlighting.Integrated debugger with stepping, persistent breakpoints, and call stack visibility.
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interactive development environment