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initial font # family, size, style

font = ('courier', 9, 'normal') # e.g., style: 'bold italic'

initial color # default=white, black

bg = 'lightcyan' # colorname or RGB hexstr
fg = 'black' # e.g., 'powder blue', '#690f96'

initial size

height = 20 # Tk default: 24 lines
width = 80 # Tk default: 80 characters

search case-insensitive

caseinsens = True # default=1/True (on)

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2.1: Unicode encoding behavior and names for file opens and saves;

attempts the cases listed below in the order shown, until the first one

that works; set all variables to false/empty/0 to use your platform's default

(which is 'utf-8' on Windows, or 'ascii' or 'latin-1' on others like Unix);

savesUseKnownEncoding: 0=No, 1=Yes for Save only, 2=Yes for Save and SaveAs;

imported from this file always: sys.path if main, else package relative;

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1) tries internally known type first (e.g., email charset)

opensAskUser = True # 2) if True, try user input next (prefill with defaults)
opensEncoding = '' # 3) if nonempty, try this encoding next: 'latin-1', 'cp500'

4) tries sys.getdefaultencoding() platform default next

5) uses binary mode bytes and Tk policy as the last resort

savesUseKnownEncoding = 1 # 1) if > 0, try known encoding from last open or save
savesAskUser = True # 2) if True, try user input next (prefill with known?)
savesEncoding = '' # 3) if nonempty, try this encoding next: 'utf-8', etc

4) tries sys.getdefaultencoding() as a last resort

Windows (and other) launch files

Next, Example 11-2 gives the .pyw launching file used to suppress a DOS pop up on
Windows when run in some modes (for instance, when double-clicked), but still allow
for a console when the .py file is run directly (to see the output of edited code run in
nonfile mode, for example). Clicking this directly is similar to the behavior when PyEdit
is run from the PyDemos or PyGadgets demo launcher bars.

Example 11-2. PP4E\Gui\TextEditor\textEditorNoConsole.pyw

"""
run without a DOS pop up on Windows; could use just a .pyw for both
imports and launch, but .py file retained for seeing any printed text
"""

exec(open('textEditor.py').read()) # as if pasted here (or textEditor.main())

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