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PythonWin keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 10/20/2020 on https://defkey.com/pythonwin-shortcuts

PythonWin is an interactive development environment (IDE) that is part of
the Python for Windows extensions. It provides simple interface for editing
and running Python programs in Windows.

PythonWin has 47 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



General
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Alt + Q                 Reformat the current paragraph/comment block. Note this does NOT reformat
code correctly - use only within comment blocks!
Ctrl + W                Toggle view whitespace.
Alt + /                 Expand the word at the cursor. Pressing the key again expands to the next
match.
.                       Auto expand the attribute. Eg, typing "string." will display a listbox with
the contents of the string module. Select an item with Tab or the mouse.
Alt + I                 Toggle focus to/from the interactive window.


Builtin hotkeys
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Ctrl + Num +            Zoom-in for the current window. Non True-Type fonts may require multiple
presses.
Ctrl + Num -            Zoom-out for the current window. Non True-Type fonts may require multiple
presses.
Ctrl + Backspace        Delete the word to the left of the cursor.
Ctrl + Z                Undo
Ctrl + Y                Redo
Ctrl + X                Cut
Ctrl + C                Copy
Ctrl + V                Paste
Ctrl + A                Select All
Ctrl + Shift + L        Delete the current line
Ctrl + T                Transpose (swap) the current line with the line above
Ctrl + U                Convert the selection to lower case
Ctrl + Shift + U        Convert the selection to upper case


Editor
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F2                      Move to the next bookmark.
Ctrl + F2               Add or remove a bookmark on the current line.
Ctrl + G                Prompt for and goto a specific line number.
Alt + B                 Adds a simple comment banner at the current location.
Alt + 3                 Block comment the selected region.
Shift + Alt + 3         Uncomment the selected region.
Alt + 4                 Uncomment the selected region (IDLE default keystroke)
Alt + 5                 Tabify the selected region.
Alt + 6                 Untabify the selected region.
Backspace               Remove selected region or one character or indent to the left.
Ctrl + T                Toggle the use of tabs for the current file (after confirmation)
Alt + U                 Change the indent width for the current file.
Enter                   Insert a newline and indent.
Tab                     Insert an indent, perform a block indent if a selection exists, or accept
an attribute selection.
Shift + Tab             Block dedent the selection.
F6                      Toggle view when editor splitter is open.
Num +                   If the current line is a collapsed fold, expand it (see Folding)
Alt + Num +             Expand all folds in the current file (see Folding )
Num -                   If the current line is an expanded fold, collapse it (see Folding)
Alt + Num -             Collapse all folds in the current file. regardless of how deep the fold
becomes. (see Folding)
Num *                   Expand or collapse all top-level folds in the current file. No second level
or deeper folds are changed. If the first fold in the file is collapsed,
all top-level folds are opened. Otherwise, all top-level folds are
collapsed (see Folding)


Debugger
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F9                      Toggle breakpoint
F5                      Run (ie, go)
Shift + F5              Stop debugging
F11                     Single step into functions
F10                     Step over functions
Shift + F11             Step out of the current function


Interactive
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Ctrl + Up arrow         Recall the previous command in the history list
Ctrl + Down arrow       Recall the next command in the history list

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