Warning

This project is being split into 3 separate projects:

  • friendly_traceback,

  • friendly, and

  • friendly_idle.

The documentation does not reflect this change.

If you are a end-user, just install friendly until further notice.

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A bit of history

Starting with version 3.2.5, the creator of Thonny kindly included built-in support for an early version of friendly. As friendly evolved, I suggested that the built-in support be temporarily removed so as to avoid any incompatibility; this has happened in newer versions of Thonny.

In the near future, I hope to add a way to add back some built-in support for friendly in Thonny, to complement its built-in “Assistant”.

Information for Thonny

Thonny is a fantastic programming environment for learning Python.

Thonny is highly configurable. Among the tools it provides is the ability to install packages either from pypi or others found locally.

If you have already installed friendly, the first step is to ensure that Thonny can see that friendly is installed. If not, it means that Thonny uses a different environment than the one in which you installed friendly; in this case, you can use Thonny’s package manager to install friendly.

thonny manage packages

As you can see, friendly is indeed installed on my computer, along with many other packages.

thonny manage packages

Future work

Todo

Ensure that friendly can be integrated within Thonny and used to supplement Thonny’s own “Assistant”.