我如何获得IDLE（Python）以使用Anaconda（Windows 7 32bit）安装的软件包？

Question

The title says it all i want to be able to use the packages that are installed with anaconda with idle so are there any ways of making this work? When i try to import packages with idle that i installed using anaconda it says package not found. I need some help please and thank you in advance.

Answer 1

The IDLE that comes with python 3.5.2 can only be run by python 3.5.2. Code you submit to python 3.5.2 through that IDLE can normally only access packages installed for 3.5.2, plus your own code. I believe Anaconda 3.6.3 comes with Python 3.6.3 and the 3.6.3 standard library, including the 3.6.3 version of idlelib.

In order for your code to use the packages installed with anaconda, you must run your code with the anaconda binary. To run your code from IDLE with the anaconda binary, you must run IDLE with that binary instead of some other binary (like the 3.5.2 binary.

When running Python 3.6.3 interactively, you can start IDLE 3.6.3 at a >>> prompt with import idlelib.idle . If you can start python 3.6.3 in a terminal (Command Prompt on Windows), then adding the arguments -m idlelib will start IDLE.

On Windows, I have no idea whether or not Anaconda adds 'Edit with IDLE 3.6.3' to the right-click context menu for .py and .pyw files, the way the python.org installer does. On any system, you should be able to create a file or icon that will start 3.6.3 with IDLE, but details depend heavily on OS and version.

Answer 2

I see idle is automatically installed with Anaconda Python 3. To launch idle open windows command prompt and type the below command:

idle()

In my other laptop i can also launch idle by this command on windows prompt:

python -m idlelib.idle

Hope this helps. See this discussion for more info https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/#!topic/anaconda/Dr8xFdKbA20