On 12/8/2019 2:30 PM, André Roberge wrote:
Is there any way to add an extension to IDLE without putting it "by
hand" in the idlelib directory but installing it from pypi.org
<http://pypi.org> and using some configuration settings to let IDLE know
where to find such an extension?
The editor.EditorWindow.load_extension import code first tries to import
an extension from idlelib and then from anywhere on sys.path, in
particular, I presume, site-packages. (A failure is printed to the
console.)
try:
mod = importlib.import_module('.' + fname, package=__package__)
except (ImportError, TypeError):
mod = importlib.import_module(fname)
What is required is the addition of a section to config-extensions.def.
When pip installs a package, I believe it can run a setup file in the
package that can do this. I don't know how, but I would agree to adding
instructions to those already at the top of that file. I know that
IdleX has code to add a section, as well as monkey-patching other
idlelib files, but I don't know if this is done automatically on
installation or if users have to separately invoke IdleX setup.
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