How to turn on line numbers in IDLE

Question

In the main shell of IDLE  errors always return a line number but the development environment doesn t even have line numbers  Is there anyway to turn on line numbers

User · Answer

As it was mentioned by Davos you can use the IDLEX

It happens that I'm using Linux version and from all extensions I needed only LineNumbers. So I've downloaded IDLEX archive, took LineNumbers.py from it, copied it to Python's lib folder ( in my case its /usr/lib/python3.5/idlelib ) and added following lines to configuration file in my home folder which is ~/.idlerc/config-extensions.cfg:

[LineNumbers]
enable = 1
enable_shell = 0
visible = True

[LineNumbers_cfgBindings]
linenumbers-show =

User · Answer

Line numbers were added to the IDLE editor two days ago and will appear in the upcoming 3 8 0a3 and later 3 7 5   For new windows  they are off by default  but this can be reversed on the Setting dialog  General tab  Editor section   For existing windows  there is a new Show  Hide  Line Numbers entry on the Options menu   There is currently no hotkey   One can select a line or bloc of lines by clicking on a line or clicking and dragging   Some people may have missed Edit   Go to Line   The right-click context menu Goto File Line works on grep  Find in Files  output as well as on trackbacks

User · Answer

As  StahlRat already answered  I would like to add another method for it  There is extension pack for Python Default idle editor Python Extensions Package

User · Answer

If you are trying to track down which line caused an error  if you right-click in the Python shell where the line error is displayed it will come up with a  Go to file line   which takes you directly to the line in question

User · Answer

There s a set of useful extensions to IDLE called IDLEX that works with MacOS and Windows http   idlex sourceforge net   It includes line numbering and I find it quite handy  amp  free    Otherwise there are a bunch of other IDEs some of which are free   https   wiki python org moin IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments

User · Answer

As mentioned above  a quick way to do this     pip install IDLEX   Then I create a shortcut on Desktop  Win10  like this   C  Python Python37 pythonw exe  C  Python Python37 Scripts idlex pyw    The paths may be different and need to be changed   C  Python Python37    Thanks for the great answers above

User · Answer

Version 3 8 or newer  To show line numbers in the current window  go to Options and click Show Line Numbers  To show them automatically  go to Options  gt  Configure IDLE  gt  General and check the Show line numbers in new windows box  Version 3 7 or older  Unfortunately there is not an option to display line numbers in IDLE although there is an enhancement request open for this  However  there are a couple of ways to work around this   Under the edit menu there is a go to line option  there is a default shortcut of Alt G for this    There is a display at the bottom right which tells you your current line number   position on the line

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