Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:
3 recent 'doit' requests (2 on PR 1589) raise my priority for this issue. When a user runs a file from an editor, IDLE simulates, as well as it can, the user entering 'python -i path' in a system command line shell. Both on a command line and in IDLE, the program starts with sys.argv = ['path'] (at least on my Windows system). This can be shown by running a file with 'import sys; print(sys.path)' both ways. The request for this issue is to simulate 'python -i path a1, a2, ...'. The program should start with sys.argv = ['path', 'a1', 'a2', '...'], with the argument strings being the same as they would be if entered at a command line on the *same system*. I have looked at least a bit at all 4 patches and have decided to start fresh, using just a few existing lines. The latest of the 4 was submitted 2 years ago, while I was learning to use git. By the following September, using config-extensions was obsolete. *If* we want to save a command string across sessions, a line could be added to config-main. But I am dubious about this. I expect that users will want to vary argument values for 1 program and need different sets of arguments for different programs. I want to use a subclass of idlelib.query.Query for the query box. No need to reinvent it. I believe that argument strings should be parsed into an argument list using shlex.split. No need to reinvent that either. But I am not an expert in this area and the doc it rather vague. I suspect that 'posix=False' should be used on Windows. Does anyone know? Gabriel's patch is the only one using shlex.split, but always with the default 'posix=True'. Saimadhav tested his patch on Debian. The others did not say. A verified-by-human htest should be added to runscript.py, and manual test running 'import sys; print(sys.argv)' from an editor done on the 3 major OSes. ---------- stage: patch review -> needs patch title: Command-line arguments when running in IDLE -> Simulate command-line arguments for program run in IDLE versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue5680> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
