Hello Python World!!! A newbie here trying to customize the IDLE and have it a bit so-called “brighter”. I wonder whether there’s an opportunity to set custom colors for different types of elements in IDLE…
Optons => Configure IDLE => (Settings) Hightlights tab. You can start customizing from either IDLE Classic(light) or IDLE Dark (dark).
Thanks Terry. But that’s not exactly what I wanted. Of course I knew about that basic customization. I just needed something “deeper”.
I mean for example I need the operators highlighted bright blue, then the methods’ color set to orange… but there’s no such option to set a certain color for the operator, method, dictionary, set, list…
Thus I meant maybe there’s some hidden “config” file in which all the categories were available separately to colorize each.
What you see is what there now is. Customizing what can be customized would be an interesting project but I can think of more important things to add to display and search.
At least you qualified the idea as a potential interesting project. I appreciate that. Thank you so much. Cheers!
If you’re open to using another editor, I would recommend using PyCharm. It is very customizable with many options to choose from. In the following screenshot, I have my editor in dark mode so that it is easy on the eyes. It also has the option of using AI such that as you’re typing, it can pretty much guess what you’re going to type and auto-fills it for you should you decide to do so by hitting the tab key.
Brilliant choice and a super user-friendly one for newbies. I use it simultaneously with vscodium. Loved it. Just wondered whether IDLE might have more extra options to achieve the look&feel closer to those flagships.