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  15 <h1 class="title">The Py Manual</h1>
  16 <h2 class="subtitle" id="py-served-fresh-daily">Py - Served Fresh Daily</h2>
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  21 <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Author:</th>
  22 <td>Patrick K. O'Brien</td></tr>
  23 <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Contact:</th>
  24 <td><a class="first last reference" href="mailto:pobrien&#64;orbtech.com">pobrien&#64;orbtech.com</a></td></tr>
  25 <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Organization:</th>
  26 <td><a class="first last reference" href="http://www.orbtech.com/">Orbtech</a></td></tr>
  27 <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Date:</th>
  28 <td>2003-07-02</td></tr>
  29 <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Revision:</th>
  30 <td>1.2</td></tr>
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  33 <div class="contents topic" id="contents">
  34 <p class="topic-title"><a name="contents">Contents</a></p>
  35 <ul class="simple">
  36 <li><a class="reference" href="#introduction" id="id3" name="id3">Introduction</a></li>
  37 <li><a class="reference" href="#developer-reference" id="id4" name="id4">Developer Reference</a></li>
  38 <li><a class="reference" href="#what-is-py" id="id5" name="id5">What is Py?</a></li>
  39 <li><a class="reference" href="#pycrust-is-dead-long-live-py" id="id6" name="id6">PyCrust is dead! Long live Py!</a></li>
  40 <li><a class="reference" href="#py-standalone-programs" id="id7" name="id7">Py standalone programs</a></li>
  41 <li><a class="reference" href="#pyalacarte" id="id8" name="id8">PyAlaCarte</a></li>
  42 <li><a class="reference" href="#pyalamode" id="id9" name="id9">PyAlaMode</a></li>
  43 <li><a class="reference" href="#pycrust" id="id10" name="id10">PyCrust</a></li>
  44 <li><a class="reference" href="#pyfilling" id="id11" name="id11">PyFilling</a></li>
  45 <li><a class="reference" href="#pyshell" id="id12" name="id12">PyShell</a></li>
  46 <li><a class="reference" href="#pywrap" id="id13" name="id13">PyWrap</a></li>
  47 <li><a class="reference" href="#py-modules" id="id14" name="id14">Py modules</a></li>
  48 <li><a class="reference" href="#decorator-classes" id="id15" name="id15">Decorator classes</a></li>
  49 <li><a class="reference" href="#projects-using-py" id="id16" name="id16">Projects using Py</a></li>
  50 <li><a class="reference" href="#history-of-changes" id="id17" name="id17">History of changes</a><ul>
  51 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-2004" id="id18" name="id18">0.9.4 (1/25/2004 to //2004)</a></li>
  52 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-1-24-2004" id="id19" name="id19">0.9.3 (9/25/2003 to 1/24/2004)</a></li>
  53 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-9-25-2003" id="id20" name="id20">0.9.2 (5/3/2003 to 9/25/2003)</a></li>
  54 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-5-2-2003" id="id21" name="id21">0.9.1 (3/21/2003 to 5/2/2003)</a></li>
  55 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-3-20-2003" id="id22" name="id22">0.9 (2/27/2003 to 3/20/2003)</a></li>
  56 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-2-26-2003" id="id23" name="id23">0.8.2 (1/5/2003 to 2/26/2003)</a></li>
  57 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-12-25-2002" id="id24" name="id24">0.8.1 (12/20/2002 to 12/25/2002)</a></li>
  58 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-12-16-2002" id="id25" name="id25">0.8 (10/29/2002 to 12/16/2002)</a></li>
  59 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-8-27-2002" id="id26" name="id26">0.7.2 (2/22/2002 to 8/27/2002)</a></li>
  60 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-2-21-2002" id="id27" name="id27">0.7.1 (12/12/2001 to 2/21/2002)</a></li>
  61 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-12-11-2001" id="id28" name="id28">0.7 (10/15/2001 to 12/11/2001)</a></li>
  62 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-10-12-2001" id="id29" name="id29">0.6.1 (9/19/2001 to 10/12/2001)</a></li>
  63 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-9-12-2001" id="id30" name="id30">0.6 (8/21/2001 to 9/12/2001)</a></li>
  64 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-8-20-2001" id="id31" name="id31">0.5.4 (8/17/2001 to 8/20/2001)</a></li>
  65 <li><a class="reference" href="#id1" id="id32" name="id32">0.5.3 (8/16/2001)</a></li>
  66 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-8-15-2001" id="id33" name="id33">0.5.2 (8/14/2001 to 8/15/2001)</a></li>
  67 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-8-14-2001" id="id34" name="id34">0.5.1 (8/10/2001 to 8/14/2001)</a></li>
  68 <li><a class="reference" href="#id2" id="id35" name="id35">0.5 (8/8/2001)</a></li>
  69 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-8-7-2001" id="id36" name="id36">0.4 (8/4/2001 to 8/7/2001)</a></li>
  70 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-8-3-2001" id="id37" name="id37">0.3 (8/2/2001 to 8/3/2001)</a></li>
  71 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-8-2-2001" id="id38" name="id38">0.2 (7/30/2001 to 8/2/2001)</a></li>
  72 <li><a class="reference" href="#to-7-19-2001" id="id39" name="id39">0.1 (7/1/2001 to 7/19/2001)</a></li>
  73 <li><a class="reference" href="#in-the-beginning-there-was-pie-7-1-2001" id="id40" name="id40">In the beginning, there was pie... (7/1/2001)</a></li>
  74 </ul>
  75 </li>
  76 </ul>
  77 </div>
  78 <div class="section" id="introduction">
  79 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id3" name="introduction">Introduction</a></h1>
  80 <p>This document will show you how to use the Py programs and the Py
  81 library of Python source code modules.  Py is the new name for the
  82 project that began as PyCrust.  Py is officially part of <a class="reference" href="http://www.wxpython.org/">wxPython</a>,
  83 and includes PyCrust, so PyCrust is no longer distributed separately.</p>
  84 </div>
  85 <div class="section" id="developer-reference">
  86 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id4" name="developer-reference">Developer Reference</a></h1>
  87 <p>Source code documentation for developers is available at:</p>
  88 <p><a class="reference" href="http://www.orbtech.com/www/wx/epydoc/public/wx.py-module.html">http://www.orbtech.com/www/wx/epydoc/public/wx.py-module.html</a></p>
  89 </div>
  90 <div class="section" id="what-is-py">
  91 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id5" name="what-is-py">What is Py?</a></h1>
  92 <p>Besides being <a class="reference" href="http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie">a delicious dessert</a>, Py is the name for a collection
  93 of whimsically-named Python programs and modules that began as the
  94 PyCrust project.  So Py is really several things: a set of standalone
  95 programs, including the original PyCrust program, a library of Python
  96 source code modules that can be used in your own programs, a set of
  97 decorator classes that enhance the wxPython class library, and as many
  98 examples of bad &quot;pie&quot; puns as I can come up with.  (If you're going to
  99 do something, you might as well do it all the way, right?)  Py uses
 100 Python and wxPython, so it works equally well on Windows, Linux and
 101 Mac OS X.</p>
 102 </div>
 103 <div class="section" id="pycrust-is-dead-long-live-py">
 104 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id6" name="pycrust-is-dead-long-live-py">PyCrust is dead! Long live Py!</a></h1>
 105 <p>This project began with a program I created called PyCrust - an
 106 interactive, graphical Python shell, developed using the wxPython GUI
 107 toolkit.  For about two years, PyCrust was hosted on <a class="reference" href="http://www.sf.net/projects/pycrust/">SourceForge</a>.
 108 Shortly after I created PyCrust, the wxPython folks started including
 109 it in their distribution.  As the PyCrust project grew, it reached a
 110 point where I thought the original PyCrust name was too confining.  I
 111 was using the PyCrust code base to develop programs that weren't just
 112 Python shells any more.</p>
 113 <p>Around that same time, the wxPython folks asked me if I'd be willing
 114 to move all my wxPython-related projects into the <a class="reference" href="http://cvs.wxwindows.org">wxPython CVS
 115 repository</a>, and become part of the <a class="reference" href="http://www.wxpython.org/">wxPython</a>/<a class="reference" href="http://www.wxwindows.org/">wxWindows</a> developer team.
 116 I decided the time was right to restructure the PyCrust project.
 117 During the move, the PyCrust package was renamed to &quot;py&quot; (lowercase
 118 &quot;p&quot;) and the collection of programs and modules as a whole became
 119 known as &quot;Py&quot; (with a capital &quot;P&quot;).</p>
 120 <p>The original goal of PyCrust was to be the best interactive, graphical
 121 Python shell (of course, I claimed it was the &quot;flakiest&quot; Python
 122 shell).  And that was all I wanted it to be.  But little by little I
 123 found myself developing a wider variety of tools for wxPython
 124 applications.  Eventually I'll create a debugger (PySlice, perhaps)
 125 and whatever else is needed to one day become a complete wxPython
 126 application development environment (PyFactory?).  In the mean time,
 127 PyCrust is still the flakiest Python shell, and the other Py programs
 128 are equally tasty.</p>
 129 <p>At this point, Py has standalone programs that include Python code
 130 editors (PyAlaCarte and PyAlaMode), interactive Python shells (PyCrust
 131 and PyShell), and a runtime wrapper (PyWrap).  The runtime wrapper
 132 utility provides you with runtime introspection capabilities for your
 133 wxPython programs without having to include PyCrust or PyShell in your
 134 program, and without having to alter one line of your source code.</p>
 135 <p>Py also contains a collection of modules that you can use in your own
 136 wxPython applications to provide similar services, either for your own
 137 use during development, or as an interface for users of your programs.
 138 These modules are the same ones used by all the Py programs.  In
 139 addition, Py contains a set of decorator classes that enhance the
 140 wxPython class library, by dynamically attaching docstrings and call
 141 signatures at runtime.</p>
 142 </div>
 143 <div class="section" id="py-standalone-programs">
 144 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7" name="py-standalone-programs">Py standalone programs</a></h1>
 145 <p>These are the standalone applications in the Py collection:</p>
 146 <ul class="simple">
 147 <li>PyAlaCarte</li>
 148 <li>PyAlaMode</li>
 149 <li>PyCrust</li>
 150 <li>PyFilling</li>
 151 <li>PyShell</li>
 152 <li>PyWrap</li>
 153 </ul>
 154 </div>
 155 <div class="section" id="pyalacarte">
 156 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id8" name="pyalacarte">PyAlaCarte</a></h1>
 157 <p>PyAlaCarte is a Python source code editor.  It is designed to have a
 158 simple, single-file interface.  As a standalone application, it is
 159 good for simple, short editing tasks.  But it is really meant to be
 160 more of an example of how to embed the Py editor into a wxPython
 161 application.</p>
 162 </div>
 163 <div class="section" id="pyalamode">
 164 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id9" name="pyalamode">PyAlaMode</a></h1>
 165 <p>PyAlaMode is a Python source code editor.</p>
 166 </div>
 167 <div class="section" id="pycrust">
 168 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id10" name="pycrust">PyCrust</a></h1>
 169 <p>PyCrust is an interactive, Python shell.  But it's more than just a
 170 shell.  It includes a tabbed notebook containing a namespace tree
 171 (PyFilling), and several other things.</p>
 172 </div>
 173 <div class="section" id="pyfilling">
 174 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11" name="pyfilling">PyFilling</a></h1>
 175 <p>PyFilling is a namespace viewer.  It isn't really useful as a
 176 standalone program, but it does illustrate how to make use of the
 177 underlying <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">filling</span></tt> module.</p>
 178 </div>
 179 <div class="section" id="pyshell">
 180 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12" name="pyshell">PyShell</a></h1>
 181 <p>PyShell is an interactive, Python shell.  It shares the same base code
 182 as PyCrust, but doesn't have any of the extra features that appear in
 183 the PyCrust notebook interface.</p>
 184 <div class="figure">
 185 <p><img alt="/screenshots/PyShell.png" src="/screenshots/PyShell.png" /></p>
 186 <p class="caption">PyShell running on Mandrake Linux 9.1.</p>
 187 </div>
 188 </div>
 189 <div class="section" id="pywrap">
 190 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13" name="pywrap">PyWrap</a></h1>
 191 <p>PyWrap is a runtime utility that lets you run an existing wxPython
 192 program with a PyCrust frame at the same time.  Inside the PyCrust
 193 shell namespace, the local variable <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">app</span></tt> is assigned to your
 194 application instance.  In this way you can introspect your entire
 195 application within the PyCrust shell, as well as the PyFilling
 196 namespace viewer.  And through the use of the Py decorator classes,
 197 PyCrust can display wxPython function and method signatures as well as
 198 docstrings for the entire wxPython library.</p>
 199 </div>
 200 <div class="section" id="py-modules">
 201 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14" name="py-modules">Py modules</a></h1>
 202 <p>Py was designed to be modular.  That means graphical code is kept
 203 separate from non-graphical code, and many of the Py modules can be
 204 used by other programs.  Likewise, other programs can supply some of
 205 the modules needed by Py.  For example, you could supply a customized
 206 interpreter module and plug it in to the PyCrust standalone
 207 application.  As long as it supports the minimum functionality
 208 required, PyCrust will work just as well with your interpreter as with
 209 its default interpreter.</p>
 210 </div>
 211 <div class="section" id="decorator-classes">
 212 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15" name="decorator-classes">Decorator classes</a></h1>
 213 <p>Py contains a set of decorator classes that enhance the wxPython class
 214 library, by dynamically attaching docstrings and call signatures at
 215 runtime.</p>
 216 </div>
 217 <div class="section" id="projects-using-py">
 218 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16" name="projects-using-py">Projects using Py</a></h1>
 219 <ul class="simple">
 220 <li><a class="reference" href="http://conflictsolver.sourceforge.net/">Conflict Solver</a></li>
 221 <li><a class="reference" href="http://www.gnumed.org/">Gnumed</a></li>
 222 <li>PyGist</li>
 223 <li><a class="reference" href="http://www.pythoncard.org/">PythonCard</a></li>
 224 <li><a class="reference" href="http://rpy.sourceforge.net/">RPy</a></li>
 225 <li><a class="reference" href="http://www.scipy.org/">SciPy</a></li>
 226 <li><a class="reference" href="http://www.sim42.org/">Sim42</a></li>
 227 <li><a class="reference" href="http://linus.yorktown.arlington.k12.va.us/CS/APCSC/student_sites/David_Mayo/wxGasp">wxGasp</a></li>
 228 </ul>
 229 </div>
 230 <div class="section" id="history-of-changes">
 231 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17" name="history-of-changes">History of changes</a></h1>
 232 <p>This section lists all the changes that have been made to the Py
 233 programs and modules, since the beginning.</p>
 234 <div class="section" id="to-2004">
 235 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18" name="to-2004">0.9.4 (1/25/2004 to //2004)</a></h2>
 236 <p>Removed wxd decorators in favor of new SWIG-generated docstrings.</p>
 237 <p>Removed docs tabs from crust interface:
 238 * wxPython Docs
 239 * wxSTC Docs</p>
 240 </div>
 241 <div class="section" id="to-1-24-2004">
 242 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19" name="to-1-24-2004">0.9.3 (9/25/2003 to 1/24/2004)</a></h2>
 243 <p>Fun and games with dynamic renaming.  Details of any other changes
 244 were lost in the confusion.  I'll try to do better in the future.</p>
 245 </div>
 246 <div class="section" id="to-9-25-2003">
 247 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20" name="to-9-25-2003">0.9.2 (5/3/2003 to 9/25/2003)</a></h2>
 248 <p>Changed to the new prefix-less &quot;wx&quot; package:</p>
 249 <pre class="literal-block">
 250 import wx
 251 </pre>
 252 <p>instead of:</p>
 253 <pre class="literal-block">
 254 from wxPython import wx
 255 </pre>
 256 <p>Fixed typo in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyWrap.py</span></tt>:</p>
 257 <pre class="literal-block">
 258 if __name__ == '__main__':
 259     main(sys.argv)
 260 </pre>
 261 <p>should have been:</p>
 262 <pre class="literal-block">
 263 if __name__ == '__main__':
 264     main()
 265 </pre>
 266 <p>Added pretty-print Display tab to Crust, based on suggestion from
 267 Jason Whitlark.</p>
 268 <p>Improved <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Can*</span></tt> checks in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">EditWindow</span></tt>, since STC is too lenient,
 269 particularly when it is set to read-only but returns True for
 270 CanPaste() (seems like an STC bug to me):</p>
 271 <pre class="literal-block">
 272 def CanCopy(self):
 273     &quot;&quot;&quot;Return True if text is selected and can be copied.&quot;&quot;&quot;
 274     return self.GetSelectionStart() != self.GetSelectionEnd()
 275
 276 def CanCut(self):
 277     &quot;&quot;&quot;Return True if text is selected and can be cut.&quot;&quot;&quot;
 278     return self.CanCopy() and self.CanEdit()
 279
 280 def CanEdit(self):
 281     &quot;&quot;&quot;Return True if editing should succeed.&quot;&quot;&quot;
 282     return not self.GetReadOnly()
 283
 284 def CanPaste(self):
 285     &quot;&quot;&quot;Return True if pasting should succeed.&quot;&quot;&quot;
 286     return stc.StyledTextCtrl.CanPaste(self) and self.CanEdit()
 287 </pre>
 288 </div>
 289 <div class="section" id="to-5-2-2003">
 290 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id21" name="to-5-2-2003">0.9.1 (3/21/2003 to 5/2/2003)</a></h2>
 291 <p>PyCrust is dead!  Long live Py!</p>
 292 <ul class="simple">
 293 <li>Renamed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrust</span></tt> package to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">py</span></tt>.</li>
 294 <li>Moved code to wxPython's CVS repository.</li>
 295 </ul>
 296 <p>Fixed bug in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.py</span></tt> on introspecting objects occurring
 297 immediately after a secondary prompt, like this:</p>
 298 <pre class="literal-block">
 299 &gt;&gt;&gt; l = [1, 2, 3]
 300 &gt;&gt;&gt; for n in range(3):
 301 ...     l.  &lt;-- failed to popup autocomplete list
 302 </pre>
 303 <p>Added documentation files:</p>
 304 <ul class="simple">
 305 <li>PyManual.txt</li>
 306 <li>wxPythonManual.txt</li>
 307 <li>wxPythonPackage.txt</li>
 308 <li>wxPythonExamples.txt</li>
 309 </ul>
 310 <p>Added PyAlaMode and PyAlaCarte code editors.</p>
 311 <p>Major refactoring to support <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">editor</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell</span></tt> from the same
 312 base.</p>
 313 <p>Renamed program files:</p>
 314 <ul class="simple">
 315 <li><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrustApp.py</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrust.py</span></tt></li>
 316 <li><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyFillingApp.py</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyFilling.py</span></tt></li>
 317 <li><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyShellApp.py</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyShell.py</span></tt></li>
 318 <li><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">wrap.py</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyWrap.py</span></tt></li>
 319 </ul>
 320 <p>Removed disabling of autocomplete for lists of 2000 items or more.
 321 The current implementation of wxSTC can now handle lists this big.</p>
 322 <p>Improved handling of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">sys.path</span></tt> to mimic the standard Python shell.</p>
 323 </div>
 324 <div class="section" id="to-3-20-2003">
 325 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22" name="to-3-20-2003">0.9 (2/27/2003 to 3/20/2003)</a></h2>
 326 <p>Added fontIncrease, fontDecrease, fontDefault signals, receivers and
 327 keybindings:</p>
 328 <pre class="literal-block">
 329 Ctrl+]            Increase font size.
 330 Ctrl+[            Decrease font size.
 331 Ctrl+=            Default font size.
 332 </pre>
 333 <p>Continued enhancement of the decorator capability to provide better
 334 documentation and docstrings for wxPython classes and functions.</p>
 335 <p>Introduced new tabbed interface:</p>
 336 <ul class="simple">
 337 <li>Namespace</li>
 338 <li>Calltip</li>
 339 <li>Session</li>
 340 <li>Dispatcher</li>
 341 <li>wxPython Docs</li>
 342 <li>wxSTC Docs</li>
 343 </ul>
 344 <p><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Filling.tree</span></tt> now expands tuples as well as lists.  (It should have
 345 done this all along, I just never noticed this omission before.)</p>
 346 <p>Added this True/False test to all modules:</p>
 347 <pre class="literal-block">
 348 try:
 349     True
 350 except NameError:
 351     True = 1==1
 352     False = 1==0
 353 </pre>
 354 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">wxd</span></tt> directory with decoration classes.</p>
 355 </div>
 356 <div class="section" id="to-2-26-2003">
 357 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23" name="to-2-26-2003">0.8.2 (1/5/2003 to 2/26/2003)</a></h2>
 358 <p>Wrapped <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">sys.ps1</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">sys.ps2</span></tt>, and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">sys.ps3</span></tt> in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">str()</span></tt>.
 359 (Thanks, Kieran Holland.)</p>
 360 <p>Fixed minor things found by PyChecker.</p>
 361 <p>Changed locals to use <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">__main__.__dict__</span></tt> and added code to clean up
 362 the namespace, making it as close to the regular Python environment as
 363 possible.  This solves the problem of pickling and unpickling
 364 instances of classes defined in the shell.</p>
 365 <p>Made <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.PasteAndRun()</span></tt> a little more forgiving when it finds a
 366 ps2 prompt line with no trailing space, such when you copy code from a
 367 web page.</p>
 368 <p>Improved autocomplete behavior by adding these to shell:</p>
 369 <pre class="literal-block">
 370 self.AutoCompSetAutoHide(False)
 371 self.AutoCompStops(' .,;:([)]}\'&quot;\\&lt;&gt;%^&amp;+-=*/|`')
 372 </pre>
 373 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">decor</span></tt> directory, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">decorator.py</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">stcDecor.py</span></tt>, and
 374 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">stcConstants.py</span></tt>.  These all serve the purpose of adding docstrings
 375 to existing wxPython classes, in particular the <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">wxStyledTextCtrl</span></tt>.</p>
 376 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">wrap.py</span></tt>, a command line utility for running a wxPython app
 377 with additional runtime-tools loaded, such as PyCrust (the only tool
 378 at this point).</p>
 379 <p>Flushed the clipboard Cut/Copy operations so that selections will
 380 exist in the clipboard even after PyCrust has been closed.</p>
 381 <p>Improved the suppression of docstrings for simple data types appearing
 382 in the namespace viewer.</p>
 383 <p>Better handling of autocompletion with numeric types; no
 384 autocompletion when typing a dot after an integer.  If the
 385 autocompletion is desired, type a space before the dot:</p>
 386 <pre class="literal-block">
 387 func = 3 .
 388 </pre>
 389 <p>More Filling!!! The namespace tree is now dynamically updated.</p>
 390 </div>
 391 <div class="section" id="to-12-25-2002">
 392 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24" name="to-12-25-2002">0.8.1 (12/20/2002 to 12/25/2002)</a></h2>
 393 <p>Improved keyboard handling with Autocomplete active.  You can now use
 394 Enter as well as Tab to select an item from the list.</p>
 395 <p>Disabled autocomplete for lists of 2000 items or more.  The current
 396 implementation of wxSTC can't handle lists this big.</p>
 397 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">filling</span></tt> to always display docstrings for objects.  This is
 398 useful for objects whose docstrings have been decorated, rather than
 399 coming directly from the source code.  (Hmmm.  Sounds like someone is
 400 doing some decorating.  I wonder where that would be helpful? &lt;wink&gt;)</p>
 401 <p>Fixed handling of icon.  Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">images.py</span></tt> file.</p>
 402 </div>
 403 <div class="section" id="to-12-16-2002">
 404 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id25" name="to-12-16-2002">0.8 (10/29/2002 to 12/16/2002)</a></h2>
 405 <p>Added &quot;help&quot; to startup banner info.</p>
 406 <p>Made all <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">wx</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">stc</span></tt> imports explicit.  No more <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">import</span> <span class="pre">*</span></tt>.</p>
 407 <p>Replaced use of the <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">wx</span></tt> module's <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">true</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">false</span></tt> with
 408 Python's <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">True</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">False</span></tt>.</p>
 409 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.getRoot()</span></tt> to use <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">tokenize</span></tt> module.  This
 410 does a slightly better job than the previous parsing routine and the
 411 code is clearer.</p>
 412 <p>Improved handling of whitespace and empty types during introspection.</p>
 413 <p>Fixed cut/copy clipboard problem under Linux.  (Robin Dunn rocks!!!)</p>
 414 <p>Added shell.about() which works like this:</p>
 415 <pre class="literal-block">
 416 &gt;&gt;&gt; shell.about()
 417 PyCrust Version: 0.8
 418 Shell Revision: 1.80
 419 Interpreter Revision: 1.15
 420 Python Version: 2.2.2
 421 wxPython Version: 2.3.3.1
 422 Platform: linux2
 423 </pre>
 424 <p>Added copy plus and paste plus to shell menu.</p>
 425 <p>Moved shell menu from <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.py</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shellmenu.py</span></tt>.</p>
 426 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">sys.stdin.readlines()</span></tt> support.</p>
 427 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">time.sleep()</span></tt> in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">readline()</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">OnIdle()</span></tt> event
 428 handler to free up the CPU.</p>
 429 </div>
 430 <div class="section" id="to-8-27-2002">
 431 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id26" name="to-8-27-2002">0.7.2 (2/22/2002 to 8/27/2002)</a></h2>
 432 <p>Tweaked <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">getAttributeNames()</span></tt> to pick up a few more attributes:</p>
 433 <pre class="literal-block">
 434 '__bases__', '__class__', '__dict__', '__name__', 'func_closure',
 435 'func_code', 'func_defaults', 'func_dict', 'func_doc',
 436 'func_globals', 'func_name'
 437 </pre>
 438 <p>Added a tests directory and unit tests.</p>
 439 <p>Improved support for empty types in the shell: <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">[]</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">()</span></tt> and
 440 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">{}</span></tt> as far as when call tips and autocompletion are available.</p>
 441 <p>Added support for the other triple string - <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">''''''</span></tt>.</p>
 442 <p>Refactored <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.py</span></tt> to improve testability.</p>
 443 <p>Improved call tips for unbound methods by leaving the &quot;self&quot;
 444 parameter, since unbound methods require an instance be passed.</p>
 445 <p>Fixed call tip bug where a tip was displayed when a &quot;(&quot; was typed
 446 after an object that wasn't callable.</p>
 447 <p>Fixed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">getAllAttributeNames</span></tt> when <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">str(object)</span></tt> fails.</p>
 448 <p>Added brace highlighting.  (Thank you, Kevin Altis.)</p>
 449 <p>Fixed problem displaying unicode objects in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyFilling</span></tt>.</p>
 450 <p>Changed how <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">filling.py</span></tt> checks for expandable objects.  Lists are
 451 now expandable objects.</p>
 452 <p>Made the key handling more robust when there is an active text
 453 selection that includes text prior to the last primary prompt.  Thanks
 454 to Raul Cota for pointing this out.</p>
 455 <p>Fixed wxSTC problem with brace highlighting and non-us keyboards.
 456 (Thank you for the patch, Jean-Michel Fauth.)</p>
 457 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">busy</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">wxBusyCursor()</span></tt> to key points in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell</span></tt> and
 458 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">filling</span></tt>.</p>
 459 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">OnCloseWindow</span></tt> handler to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">ShellFrame</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">CrustFrame</span></tt>.</p>
 460 <p>Default to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">SetWrapMode(1)</span></tt> for shell and namespace viewer.</p>
 461 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.wrap()</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.zoom()</span></tt>.</p>
 462 <p>Added autoCompleteKeys hooks for Raul Cota.</p>
 463 <p>Cleaned up various little key handling bugs.</p>
 464 <p>Changed input methods to get values from shell, rather than dialog
 465 boxes.  Renamed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">readIn</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">readline</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">readRaw</span></tt> to
 466 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">raw_input</span></tt>.</p>
 467 </div>
 468 <div class="section" id="to-2-21-2002">
 469 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id27" name="to-2-21-2002">0.7.1 (12/12/2001 to 2/21/2002)</a></h2>
 470 <p>Fixed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">OnChar()</span></tt> issues effecting European keyboards, as reported by
 471 Jean-Michel Fauth.</p>
 472 <p>Fixed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.py</span></tt> issue with xmlrpc objects reported by Kevin
 473 Altis.</p>
 474 <p>Fixed some introspect/PyFilling issues with regard to Python 2.2.</p>
 475 <p>Fixed font background color as reported by Keith J. Farmer.  (Thanks)</p>
 476 <p>Fixed problem with call tips and autocompletion inside multiline
 477 commands as report by Kevin Altis.</p>
 478 <p>Improved <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">OnKeyDown</span></tt> handling of cut/copy/paste operations based on
 479 feedback from Syver Enstad.  (Thanks)</p>
 480 <p>Added a <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.help()</span></tt> method to display some help info.</p>
 481 <p>Changed sort of items in the namespace viewer to case insensitive.</p>
 482 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">attributes.sort(lambda</span> <span class="pre">x,</span> <span class="pre">y:</span> <span class="pre">cmp(x.upper(),</span> <span class="pre">y.upper()))</span></tt> in
 483 advance of an upcoming fix to an autocompletion matching bug in wxSTC.</p>
 484 <p>Improved support for ZODB by allowing namespace drilldown into BTrees.</p>
 485 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.PasteAndRun()</span></tt> to support pasting multiple commands into
 486 the shell from the clipboard.  Ctrl+Shift+V or v.</p>
 487 <p>Enter now always processes a command (or copies down a previous one.)
 488 To insert a line break, press Ctrl+Enter.</p>
 489 <p>Escape key clears the current, unexecuted command.</p>
 490 <p>History retrieval changed to replace current command.  Added new keys
 491 to insert from history - Shift+Up and Shift+Down.</p>
 492 <p>Better call tips on objects with <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">__call__</span></tt> methods.</p>
 493 <p>Improved call tip positioning calculation.</p>
 494 </div>
 495 <div class="section" id="to-12-11-2001">
 496 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id28" name="to-12-11-2001">0.7 (10/15/2001 to 12/11/2001)</a></h2>
 497 <p>Changed how command history retrieval functions work.  Added Alt-P,
 498 Alt-N as keybindings for Retrieve-Previous, Retrieve-Next.</p>
 499 <p>Added full support for multi-line commands, similar to IDLE.</p>
 500 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.getAttributeNames()</span></tt> to do a case insensitive
 501 sort.</p>
 502 <p>Changed Cut/Copy/Paste to deal with prompts intelligently.  Cut and
 503 Copy remove all prompts.  Paste can handle prompted or not-prompted
 504 text.</p>
 505 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">CopyWithPrompts()</span></tt> method attached to Ctrl-Shift-C for those
 506 times when you really do want all the prompts left intact.</p>
 507 <p>Improved handling of the shell's read-only zone.</p>
 508 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">CrustFrame.__init__</span></tt> parameter spec to include all
 509 parameters allowed by a <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">wxFrame</span></tt>.</p>
 510 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">FillingText</span></tt> to be read-only.</p>
 511 <p>Renamed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrust.py</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrustApp.py</span></tt> to eliminate
 512 package/module name conflicts that kept you from doing <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">from</span> <span class="pre">PyCrust</span>
 513 <span class="pre">import</span> <span class="pre">shell</span></tt> inside files located in the <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrust</span></tt> directory.</p>
 514 <p>Renamed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyFilling.py</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyFillingApp.py</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyShell.py</span></tt> to
 515 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyShellApp.py</span></tt> to maintain consistency.</p>
 516 <p>Removed the <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">__date__</span></tt> property from all modules.</p>
 517 <p>Fixed bug in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.getCallTip()</span></tt>, reported by Kevin Altis.</p>
 518 </div>
 519 <div class="section" id="to-10-12-2001">
 520 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id29" name="to-10-12-2001">0.6.1 (9/19/2001 to 10/12/2001)</a></h2>
 521 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Shell.run()</span></tt> to always position to the end of existing
 522 text, as suggested by Raul Cota.</p>
 523 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.getAllAttributeNames()</span></tt> to break circular
 524 references in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">object.__class__</span></tt>, which occurs in Zope/ZODB
 525 extension classes.</p>
 526 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">filling.FillingTree.getChildren()</span></tt> to introspect extension
 527 classes.</p>
 528 <p>Fixed minor bugs in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.getCallTip()</span></tt> that were interfering
 529 with call tips for Zope/ZODB extension class methods.</p>
 530 <p>In preparation for wxPython 2.3.2, added code to fix a font sizing
 531 problem.  Versions of wxPython prior to 2.3.2 had a sizing bug on Win
 532 platform where the font was 2 points larger than what was specified.</p>
 533 <p>Added a hack to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.getAllAttributeNames()</span></tt> to &quot;wake up&quot;
 534 ZODB objects that are asleep - in a &quot;ghost&quot; state.  Otherwise it
 535 returns incomplete info.</p>
 536 </div>
 537 <div class="section" id="to-9-12-2001">
 538 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id30" name="to-9-12-2001">0.6 (8/21/2001 to 9/12/2001)</a></h2>
 539 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyFilling.py</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">filling.py</span></tt>.</p>
 540 <p><tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyShell.py</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyFilling.py</span></tt> can now be run standalone, as well
 541 as <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrust.py</span></tt>.</p>
 542 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">crust.py</span></tt> and moved some code from <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrust.py</span></tt> to it.</p>
 543 <p>Added command history retrieval features submitted by Richie Hindle.</p>
 544 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.write()</span></tt> to replace line endings with OS-specific
 545 endings.  Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.py</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">interpreter.py</span></tt> to use
 546 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">os.linesep</span></tt> in strings having hardcoded line endings.</p>
 547 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.redirectStdin()</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.redirectStdout()</span></tt> and
 548 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">shell.redirectStderr()</span></tt> to allow the surrounding app to toggle
 549 requests that the specified <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">sys.std*</span></tt> be redirected to the shell.
 550 These can also be run from within the shell itself, of course.</p>
 551 <p>The shell now adds the current working directory &quot;.&quot; to the search
 552 path:</p>
 553 <pre class="literal-block">
 554 sys.path.insert(0, os.curdir)
 555 </pre>
 556 <p>Added support for distutils installations.</p>
 557 </div>
 558 <div class="section" id="to-8-20-2001">
 559 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id31" name="to-8-20-2001">0.5.4 (8/17/2001 to 8/20/2001)</a></h2>
 560 <p>Changed default font size under Linux to:</p>
 561 <pre class="literal-block">
 562 'size'   : 12,
 563 'lnsize' : 10,
 564 </pre>
 565 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Shell</span></tt> to expect a parameter referencing an Interpreter
 566 class, rather than an intepreter instance, to facilitate subclassing
 567 of Interpreter, which effectively broke when the Editor class was
 568 eliminated.</p>
 569 <p>Fixed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrustAlaCarte.py</span></tt>, which had been broken by previous
 570 changes.</p>
 571 <p>Created <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">InterpreterAlaCarte</span></tt> class as an example for use in the
 572 demo.</p>
 573 <p>Split <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrust.py</span></tt> into <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrust.py</span></tt> and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyShell.py</span></tt> in
 574 anticipation of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyFilling.py</span></tt>.</p>
 575 </div>
 576 <div class="section" id="id1">
 577 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id32" name="id1">0.5.3 (8/16/2001)</a></h2>
 578 <p>Added patch to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrust.py</span></tt> to fix wxPython bug:</p>
 579 <pre class="literal-block">
 580 wxID_SELECTALL = NewId() # This *should* be defined by wxPython.
 581 </pre>
 582 </div>
 583 <div class="section" id="to-8-15-2001">
 584 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id33" name="to-8-15-2001">0.5.2 (8/14/2001 to 8/15/2001)</a></h2>
 585 <p>Shortened module names by dropping &quot;PyCrust&quot; as a prefix.</p>
 586 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">version</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">VERSION</span></tt> in <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">version</span></tt> module.</p>
 587 <p>Added Options menu to PyCrust application.</p>
 588 <p>Eliminated the Editor class (and editor module) by merging with Shell.
 589 This means that Shell &quot;is a&quot; wxStyledTextCtrl rather than &quot;has a&quot;.
 590 There just wasn't enough non-gui code to justify the separation.
 591 Plus, Shell will be much easier for gui toolkits/designers to deal
 592 with now.</p>
 593 </div>
 594 <div class="section" id="to-8-14-2001">
 595 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id34" name="to-8-14-2001">0.5.1 (8/10/2001 to 8/14/2001)</a></h2>
 596 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect</span></tt> module.</p>
 597 <p>Moved some functionality from <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrustInterp</span></tt> to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect</span></tt>.</p>
 598 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.getRoot()</span></tt> to no longer remove whitespace from
 599 the command.  This was a remnant of a previous approach that, when
 600 left as part of the current approach, turned out to be a really bad
 601 thing.</p>
 602 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.getRoot()</span></tt> to allow commands of <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">''</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">&quot;&quot;</span></tt>,
 603 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;&quot;</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">[]</span></tt>, <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">()</span></tt>, and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">{}</span></tt> to pass through.  This allows
 604 you to type them, followed by a dot, and get autocomplete options on
 605 them.</p>
 606 <p>Changed <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">introspect.getRoot()</span></tt> to identify some situations where
 607 strings shouldn't be considered roots.  For example:</p>
 608 <pre class="literal-block">
 609 &gt;&gt;&gt; import PyCrust  # To illustrate the potential problem.
 610 &gt;&gt;&gt; len('PyCrust.py')
 611 </pre>
 612 <p>Typing the dot at the end of &quot;PyCrust&quot; in the second line above should
 613 NOT result in an autocompletion list because &quot;PyCrust&quot; is part of a
 614 string in this context, not a reference to the PyCrust module object.
 615 Similar reasoning applies to call tips.  For example:</p>
 616 <pre class="literal-block">
 617 &gt;&gt;&gt; len('dir(')
 618 </pre>
 619 <p>Typing the left paren at the end of &quot;dir&quot; should NOT result in a call
 620 tip.</p>
 621 <p>Both features now behave properly in the examples given.  However,
 622 there is still the case where whitespace precedes the potential root
 623 and that is NOT handled properly.  For example:</p>
 624 <pre class="literal-block">
 625 &gt;&gt;&gt; len('this is a dir(')
 626 </pre>
 627 <p>and:</p>
 628 <pre class="literal-block">
 629 &gt;&gt;&gt; len('This is PyCrust.py')
 630 </pre>
 631 <p>More code needs to be written to handle more complex situations.</p>
 632 <p>Added <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">locals=None</span></tt> parameter to <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">Shell.__init__()</span></tt>.</p>
 633 <p>Added support for magic attribute retrieval.  Users can change this
 634 with:</p>
 635 <pre class="literal-block">
 636 &gt;&gt;&gt; shell.editor.autoCompleteIncludeMagic = 0
 637 </pre>
 638 <p>Added the ability to set filters on auto completion to exclude
 639 attributes prefixed with a single or double underscore.  Users can
 640 exclude one or the other or both with:</p>
 641 <pre class="literal-block">
 642 &gt;&gt;&gt; shell.editor.autoCompleteExcludeSingle = 1
 643 &gt;&gt;&gt; shell.editor.autoCompleteExcludeDouble = 1
 644 </pre>
 645 </div>
 646 <div class="section" id="id2">
 647 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id35" name="id2">0.5 (8/8/2001)</a></h2>
 648 <p>Mostly just a final version change before creating a release.</p>
 649 </div>
 650 <div class="section" id="to-8-7-2001">
 651 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id36" name="to-8-7-2001">0.4 (8/4/2001 to 8/7/2001)</a></h2>
 652 <p>Changed version/revision handling.</p>
 653 <p>Fixed bugs.</p>
 654 </div>
 655 <div class="section" id="to-8-3-2001">
 656 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id37" name="to-8-3-2001">0.3 (8/2/2001 to 8/3/2001)</a></h2>
 657 <p>Removed lots of cruft.</p>
 658 <p>Added lots of docstrings.</p>
 659 <p>Imported to CVS repository at SourceForge.</p>
 660 <p>Added call tips.</p>
 661 </div>
 662 <div class="section" id="to-8-2-2001">
 663 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id38" name="to-8-2-2001">0.2 (7/30/2001 to 8/2/2001)</a></h2>
 664 <p>Renamed several files.</p>
 665 <p>Added command autocompletion.</p>
 666 <p>Added menus to PyCrust.py: File, Edit and Help.</p>
 667 <p>Added sample applications: <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrustAlaCarte.py</span></tt>,
 668 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrustAlaMode.py</span></tt>, and <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">PyCrustMinimus.py</span></tt>.</p>
 669 </div>
 670 <div class="section" id="to-7-19-2001">
 671 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id39" name="to-7-19-2001">0.1 (7/1/2001 to 7/19/2001)</a></h2>
 672 <p>Added basic syntax coloring much like Boa.</p>
 673 <p>Added read-only logging much like IDLE.</p>
 674 <p>Can retrieve a previous command by putting the cursor back on that
 675 line and hitting enter.</p>
 676 <p>Stdin and raw_input operate properly so you can now do <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">help()</span></tt> and
 677 <tt class="literal"><span class="pre">license()</span></tt> without hanging.</p>
 678 <p>Redefined &quot;quit&quot;, &quot;exit&quot;, and &quot;close&quot; to display a better-than-nothing
 679 response.</p>
 680 <p>Home key honors the prompt.</p>
 681 <p>Created SourceForge account, but nothing was posted.</p>
 682 </div>
 683 <div class="section" id="in-the-beginning-there-was-pie-7-1-2001">
 684 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id40" name="in-the-beginning-there-was-pie-7-1-2001">In the beginning, there was pie... (7/1/2001)</a></h2>
 685 <p>Blame it all on IDLE, Boa and PythonWin.  I was using all three, got
 686 frustrated with their dissimilarities, and began to let everyone know
 687 how I felt.  At the same time, Scintilla looked like an interesting
 688 tool to build a shell around.  And while I didn't receive much in the
 689 way of positive feedback, let alone encouragement, I just couldn't let
 690 go of the idea of a Scintilla-based Python shell.  Then the PythonCard
 691 project got to the point where they were talking about including a
 692 shell in their development environment.  That was all the incentive I
 693 needed.  PyCrust had to happen...</p>
 694 </div>
 695 </div>
 696 </div>
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