Thonny ( ) is a
free and open-source
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integrated development environment
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for
Python
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that is designed for beginners. It was created by Aivar Annamaa, an Estonian programmer. It supports different ways of stepping through code, step-by-step expression evaluation, detailed visualization of the call stack and a mode for explaining the concepts of references and heap.
Features
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Line number
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s
* Statement stepping without breakpoints
* Live variables during debugging
* Stepping through evaluation of the expressions (expressions get replaced by their values)
* Separate windows for executing function calls (for explaining local variables and call stack)
* Variables and memory can be explained either by using simplified model (name → value) or by using more realistic model (name → address/id → value)
* Simple
pip GUI
* Support for
CPython
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CPython can be defined as both an interpreter and a comp ...
and
MicroPython
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MicroPython consists of a Python compiler to bytecode and a runtime interpreter o ...
* Support for running and managing files on a remote machine via
SSH
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* Possibility to log user actions for replaying or analyzing the programming process
Availability
The program works on Windows, macOS and Linux. It is available as a binary bundle including the recent Python interpreter
or
pip-installable package.
It can be installed via the operating-system package manager on Debian, Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, and Fedora. It is written in Python with the
Tk widget toolkit using
Tkinter
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binding.
Reception
Thonny has received favorable reviews from Python and computer science education communities.
It has been a recommended tool in several programming
MOOCs
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.
Since June 2017 it has been included by default in the
Raspberry Pi
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's official operating system distribution
Raspberry Pi OS
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.
See also
*
List of integrated development environments for Python programming language
*
Toolbox
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Kojo
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BASIC-256
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Microsoft Small Basic
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