I have a few python programs that I have written which I need to do some fairly extensive changes to (to get from gtk to gobject and to move to Python 3). This is on a Linux (xubuntu 20.04) system. I use the command line to do just about everything (even though the program is GUI!) and so I tend to edit in one window and test in an adjacent window on the same screen, I don't find GUI development environments comfortable.
The existing code simply lives in ~/bin with a couple of modules in ~/bin/pymods (which directory is in my PYTHONPATH). I use mercurial for configuration management of the code, directly in the ~/bin directory. This works fine for the sort of minor bug fixing and updates that I do most of the time, I'm the only user so changing the 'live' code isn't a major issue and I can always drop back to the last working version using mercurial. However with this more major change to do I really need a 'development' copy of the code as well as the live working copy as it's likely I will take a few days to do the changes (as in an hour or so each day over some days) and I need the ability to use the program meanwhile. So, finally to the question, does anyone else have this command line based sort of approach and, if so, what do they do to provide a 'development version' of a program in parallel with a working version? I guess virtualenv (Python 2) and venv (Python 3) address this problem but they do feel rather more complex than I actually need and I'm not very clear how you move code from the virtual environment to 'live'. There's also the issue that I'm moving code from Python 2 to Python 3 so which virtual environment should I use? Any ideas or suggestions would be very welcome. -- Chris Green ยท -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
