How to use IDLE within a virtual environment?

Question

When we install Python it automatically installs an IDLE together, but when creating a Virtual Environment it does not install. How do I gain access to IDLE within a virtual environment?

Answer 1

No need to install. IDLE is actually a module that comes bundled with Python and, when created the virtual environment, is still available to you.

To run it, simply create and activate your virtual environment:

$ python -m venv venv
$ source ./venv/bin/activate

Then run idle from the command line:

(venv) $ python -m idlelib.idle

So you will run the module idle package idlelib, responsible for the IDLE itself.

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