May I embed IDLE into my Windows application?

[Adrian Eyre]

> When I use _tkinter_d.pyd, it doesn't crash, but IDLE still
> doesn't work.  I want Python as an extension  language embedded
> in my application, I have to embed an editor. Do you have any
> suggestion?

I found that if sys.argv is empty, then IDLE will not run. Use:

PyObject* tmp = Py_BuildValue("[s]", "dummy");
PySys_SetObject("argv", tmp);
Py_DECREF(tmp);

You also need to trap stderr to see why it doesn't work. Set
sys.stderr to be something else.

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Optichrome Computer Solutions Ltd
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