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Better Python Console Plugin for Gedit

The Better Python Console Plugin aims to provide a simple IDLE-like Python console for the Gnome Editor. Unlike IDLE, you can open as many consoles as you need. The walkthrough shows some screenshots of how this works.

The Python Console plugin distributed by default with gedit is primarily designed to help you access the gedit API, for example, to write gedit plugins or to run a Python command on a document. However, if you attempt to develop a Python program of any complexity then you will find yourself crashing gedit very quickly indeed.

This plugin takes a different approach, instead of providing access to the gedit API, it keeps away from it as far as possible, reducing the risk to the running editor. It aims to follow the approach of the IDLE interpreter - the Console Window runs as a separate process. A small (minute) performance penalty is better than watching gedit lockup and lose your work.

Latest Version

For Gedit 3.14+: https://github.com/JacekPliszka/gedit-betterpythonconsole

For Gedit 3.0 - 3,12: https://github.com/jonocodes/gedit-betterpythonconsole

For Gedit 2.x: https://github.com/bleepbloop/Better-Python-Console

Included features

Possible future features

For more notes about possible future development, read here.

Author

Zeth Green


2024-10-23 10:58