running IDLE from another program?

[John Salerno]

Kent Johnson wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>> If I want to write my code in a separate text editor (I like UltraEdit) 
>> but then press a single button to have that code run in the IDLE 
>> environment, is that possible? I know that you can configure UE to run 
>> external tools, but I can't figure out how to run IDLE this way, because 
>> when I check on its properties to find it's file path, it is just the 
>> Python directory itself.
> 
> You probably don't need to do that. Just run the file in python 
> directly. I don't know UE, but when you configure an external tool, tell 
> it to run python.exe and pass the current file as a command line parameter.
> 
> Kent

I've tried a lot of combinations for the command line to execute, but 
nothing is working. What format should it be in? Should it look like this:

C:\Python24\python.exe module   ?

or module.ext? With or without the path of the file?

I think some of the problem might be that I need to fix the module 
search path also, but I don't know which format the UE tool needs to 
execute the command.