The default view in IDLE is a window for Python shell, so to create a new Python file, you’ll need to use the IDLE menu. Select “New File” from the “File” menu. Figure 1: Hello World in IDLE (1). Note ...

In 3.13: Direct support for REPL-specific commands like help, exit, and quit, without the need to call them as functions. But the 3.13 Idle still needs to call them as functions.

Up through 3.9, saving the shell saved saved the contents of the underlying text widget, which saved user input with the primary prompt and weird indents. In 3.10, the primary prompt was moved to a ...