there are two new commands:

Import module (F5) imports or reloads the module and also adds its
name to the __main__ namespace.  This gets executed in the PyShell
window under control of its debug settings.

Run script (Control-F5) is similar but executes the contents of the
file directly in the __main__ namespace.

- mark file as dirty after changing the creator of the file so we can_save...
-- jvr

  idle.py -e file ...    -- to edit files
  idle.py script arg ... -- to run a script
  idle.py -c cmd arg ... -- to run a command
Other options, see also the usage message (also new!) for more details:
  -d       -- enable debugger
  -s       -- run $IDLESTARTUP or $PYTHONSTARTUP
  -t title -- set Python Shell window's title
sys.argv is set accordingly, unless -e is used.
sys.path is absolutized, and all relevant paths are inserted into it.

Other changes:
- the environment in which commands are executed is now the __main__ module
- explicitly save sys.stdout etc., don't restore from sys.__stdout__
- new interpreter methods execsource(), execfile(), stuffsource()
- a few small nits

offending lines or to include line numbers in the output.

Make module references hyperlinks.

Various small cleanups.

Don't refer to the STDWIN chapter; chances are really good it wasn't
included.  ;-)

Make some module references hyperlinks.

confusing.  This is clearly Unix-specific; label it as such.

Unix-centric.  Note that this can be used with the output of
os.fstat() as well as os.stat() and os.lstat().

Run/Import, __main__.

databases (opened using hashopen()), as noted by Skip Montanaro on
comp.lang.python.

dramatically (up to 15 times he claims).  Works by reading more than
one line at a time, up to 100-line chunks (starting with one line and
then doubling up to the limit).  On a typical machine (e.g. Tim's
P5-166) this doesn't reduce interactive responsiveness in a noticeable
way.

the module being documented at that point in the documentation; these
are candidates for conversion to \refmodule, which produces a
hyperlink in the HTML and PDF versions of the output.

Use Python-traditional XXX comments instead of square brackets that
aren't as obvious or usefully grepable.

\op adds an optional parameter, and \p adds a required parameter.
These are only defined in the context of the parameter list parameter
of the envdesc and macrodesc environments.

compiler info.

All sections get reasonable file names in the HTML output.