Sometime between now and WWDC, I'm planning on coming out with a major update for PyOXIDE <http://projects.gandreas.com/pyoxide>
Glenn,
I'm sure you've seen the recent threads her bemoaning the lack of good tools (particularly open-source ones) for newbies developing with Python on OS-X. PyOxide seems to be the obvious candidate for filling that void of a "Mac-like" IDE. I haven't tested it for a while, but it seems that bugs are the biggest issue, rather than missing features. Robustness is FAR more important that features, except to marketing folks.
That being said: > Right
now the list is largely bug fix related:
Very good news--focus on that!
and only a few new features:
Out of process interactive interpreter support (which should allow interactive interpreters using a different version of python)
This is the only new feature I encourage you to support. Different versions of Python are nice, but not critical, but running the user's code out-of-process is very important. As others on this list have mentioned (Bob I., in particular, a voice to be listened to), an IDE that runs the user code in the same interpreter as the IDE is dead in the water as a serious tool. That is the ONE thing that kept me from using PythonWin, the old IDLE, and MacPython IDE.
Good luck, I'm very much looking forward to being able to recommend a robust IDE for OS-X.
-Chris
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