What Terminal does Python IDLE use on Windows

问题:

I was helping a fellow Stack Overflow-er today and I noticed that I don't know what terminal IDLE uses in Windows. I am tacitly assuming that Python didn't write their own terminal for Windows, and that they probably use an API that gives them some version of cmd or powershell. I verified that the interpreter runs on cmd, but I don't know about IDLE.

What terminal does IDLE use in Windows?

回答1:

IDLE is not built on an external shell or terminal, but on the Tkinter GUI toolkit.

The source code to the editor window can be read here; for the interactive shell, see here.