Pippy

Introduction

Pippy is a simple IDE for the Python programming language. It provides a menu of sample files, a text editing window, and simple controls for running and stopping the selected code.

More Info: See the Activities/Pippy page in the wiki.

There is a list of Python resources in the Activity Team pages.

What is new for users

What are the user visible changes. New short cuts. Features. Nice to back this up with images.

What is new for developers

What might be interesting to know for a developer contributing to the component. Add 'No News' if there is nothing of interest.

Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n)

Will be generated by the translation team

Compatibility

Note here if compatibility to an older version of the activity or an older Sucrose version (e.g. 0.84) broke

Detailed changes

Editor now auto-indents and tabs are now two spaces
Added new physics game example (XOlympics)
Font size needs to be 10 for 0.84+ #607
Support for 0.82 and 0.84 default font sizes.
Trac #350 - Python path set improperly (thanks sascha_silbe)
Allow playing sounds identified by full filesystem path in pippy.sound (cscott)
Resync Pippy's "Pippy metadata" with its activity.info, etc. (cscott)
New default activity icon (Madeleine Ball)
Trac #6323: Pippy's terminal and code editor font sizes are too big (brian)
Add pippy.physics package and graphics/physics example (brian)
Allow UTF-8 in Pippy source files. (cscott)

Closed tickets

#350 Pippy: Python path set improperly
#844 Thanks application in pippy has python backtrace invalid int
#1126 Pippy cannot find modules

Open tickets

#347 Pippy does not function properly at non-XO screen resolutions
#690 Invalid entry in MANIFEST
#937 Pippy control buttons don't appear
#1058 Pippy module not in correct path
#1068 "No module named pippy" in Pippy activity
#638 "Playwave" example not working: directory not found?
#691 Wrong permission and other errors
#501 Invalid entry in MANIFEST
#502 Script-without-shebang
#843 Thanks application in pippy has python backtrace invalid int
#1346 pippy fails to load examples
#1360 pippy doesn't start

Credits

Name the contributors here

0.86/Pippy

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