thanks for the useful notes guys, you are really of great help. oh and Phil, i will pay attention to the subject next time i post something :)
On 17 Apr, 10:28, Phil Mocek <pmocek-list-django-us...@mocek.org> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:53:29AM -0700, 83nini wrote: > > guys how do i create a .py file? > > > I am working on the tutorial and i don't know how to create views.py > > First, for your own good and that of other subscribers to this mailing > list, please see Eric S. Raymond's essay, "How To Ask Questions The > Smart Way" [1], particularly the section, "Use meaningful, specific > subject headers" [2]. > > There's really no such thing as a ".py file". ".py" is a suffix > typically used in the names of files that contain source code written in > the Python programming language. They can be created the same ways that > any other files are created. Typically, you'd do so using a text > editor. > > A text editor, sometimes called a programmer's editor, is simply a > program that allows one to create and modify plain text. Source code is > plain text. E-mail is plain text (unless you stuff something else, like > HTML in it, but please don't do that). > > Although all modern word processors can export a document as plain text > and although some are able to edit in a special plain text mode, they > are generally not the best tool for editing plain text, as they are > designed primarily for dealing with complicated formatting and page > layout. > > GNU Emacs [4] and Vim [5] (a clone of the ancient vi editor) are very > powerful and widely-used editors with steep learning curves. Though > their roots are in Unix, they are now available on any platform for > which an ANSI C compiler exists, so they run almost everywhere. > > The bare-bones but ubiquitous Notepad is included with Windows operating > systems. It has very few features -- it's a text editor, but hardly > adequate as a programmer's editor -- but it is small, fast, and familiar > to Windows users. Notepad2 [6] seems to be a good replacement. > > On Mac OS, TextEdit is included with the operating system and is similar > in functionality to Windows' Notepad. BBEdit [7] and SubEthaEdit [8] are > very popular text editors for Macs. > > jEdit [9] is written in Java, so it runs on all the above operating > systems. > > For more advanced editing with the addition of features like code > completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, refactoring, and > debugging, some people prefer to use an IDE (integrated development > environment). An excellent one is Eclipse [10]. It runs anywhere Java > is available. PyDev [11] is a Python plugin for Eclipse. > > On an Ubuntu or Debian GNU/Linux system, to install vim and any > prerequisites, you'd run "apt-get install vim" from the command line. > Similarly, to install PyDev (and Eclipse, and all their prerequisites) > you'd run "apt-get install eclipse-pydev". On Mac OS, things are a bit > more complicated. On Windows, things are a lot more complicated. > > References: > > [1]: <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html> > [2]: <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#bespecific> > [3]: <http://www.python.org/> > [4]: <http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/> > [5]: <http://www.vim.org/> > [6]: <http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html> > [7]: <http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml> > [8]: <http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/> > [9]: <http://www.jedit.org/> > [10]: <http://www.eclipse.org/> > [11]: <http://pydev.sourceforge.net/> > > -- > Phil Mocek --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
