This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses the why, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.

Myopia theory changes how we understand drunkenness. Disinhibition suggests that the drinker is increasingly insensitive to his environment—that he is in the grip of an autonomous physiological process. Myopia theory, on the contrary, says that the drinker is, in some respects, increasingly sensitive to his environment: he is at the mercy of whatever is in front of him.

The most creative spaces are those which hurl us together. It is the human friction that makes the sparks.

Time to apply this to my thesis.

Terminal-like behavior for Shell. Cursor stays in prompt and up/down arrow keys navigate the command history.

Matplotlib support for interactive figures when using the subprocess.

Interactive GUI development for Tkinter, GTK, Qt, Qt4, PySide, wxPython

Tabbed editor windows with drag'n'drop reordering.

SubCodes, similar to MATLAB cell mode and Sagemath cells, for quick code prototyping without restarting the shell.

Execute highlighted code or a single line from the editor.

Persistent history of Shell commands across sessions.

Integrated reindent.py support.

Improved code navigation with Code Browser.

Cython editing and execution support.

Horizontal scroll bar for the editor.

Line numbers for the editor.

Clear Shell Window without restarting.

Simple interface for enabling/disabling extensions.

SearchBar, Squeezer, and IDLE2HTML included. (Originally by Tal Einat, Noam Raphael, and Michael Haubenwallner)

Intelligent Paste from Shell. (remove >>> prompts)

Highlight tabs (\t) in editor to help fix tab/space issues.

Line numbers!