This page is not updated as often as it should be: Mercurial history logs may be interesting to look at to have an up-to-date overview of Pydee features.

Pydee features

(not exhaustive)

• Pydee options (type pydee --help to see all available options):
1. 'light' option (i.e. -l or --light) to disable all widgets except the shell and the working directory changer

2. 'modules' option, i.e. -m or --modules followed by a comma separated (without spaces) list of module names to be imported at startup 3. 's' (or --startup): specify a startup script (overrides PYTHONSTARTUP script)

• Shell:
1. Scintilla's code completion

2. filename/dirname completion (press Tab after a " or ' character) 3. Calltips: object's documentation or arguments (if callable) 4. PYTHONSTARTUP script is executed at startup 5. IPython-like 'run', 'edit', 'cls' and system commands (using prefix '!', e.g. !ls or !dir) 6. IPython's deep reload function as builtin reload replacement 7. 'xedit' command to edit script in an external editor 8. 'oedit' function to edit object in a GUI-based editor (dictionaries, lists, tuples, arrays, strings, ...) 9. Find/replace with a Firefox-like widget (not a pop-up window)

• DocViewer:
1. Automatic documentation on every callable object written in console

2. History 3. Find/replace with a Firefox-like widget (not a pop-up window)

• Editor:
1. Multiple file support

2. Find/replace with a Firefox-like widget (not a pop-up window) 3. ...

See below for a short descript of available widgets.

Pydee's PyQt4 widgets

Here are examples of available PyQt4 widgets:

• Shell, a Python shell with useful options (like a '-os' switch for importing os and os.path as osp, a '-pylab' switch for importing matplotlib in interactive mode, ...) and advanced features like code completion (requires !QScintilla, i.e. module PyQt4.Qsci)

• WorkingDirectory: shows the current directory and allows to change it

• Editor: multiline Python code editor with syntax coloration and code-completion

• HistoryLog: read-only colorated editor containing history

• DocViewer: a widget to show documentation on an object (docstring) either by entering its reference manually or automatically when you type the reference in the console

• ArrayEditor: NumPy arrays editor with optional background coloring

• DictEditor: dict/list editor (and tuple read-only 'editor')

• Workspace: shows globals() list with some properties for each global (e.g. value for int or float, min and max values for arrays, ...) and allows to open an appropriate GUI editor

Pydee stores its settings in .pydee.ini, a configuration file in your home directory (on Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\%username%). Thanks to this .ini file, a lot of features of Pydee may be enabled, disabled or tweaked.