On Apr 25, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Charles Hartman wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Brendan Simons wrote: > >> While you're (re)considering adding Build Applet.app >> to the distribution, can I suggest another useful app? >> >> PyCrust is a great little interactive Python shell >> that adds introspection and code completion. It's >> written in wx.python and comes packaged in a .app >> bundle with a nice icon :) You can get a >> (pre-release) copy of the universal binary version >> here: >> >> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython2.6-osx-docs- >> demos-2.6.3.2rc1-universal10.4-py2.4.dmg >> >> The source code is managed as part of wx.python, but >> this app in particular is pretty stable, and is useful >> outside of wx. (imho) >> >> It would be a lot nicer to send newbies to pycrust >> then to the command line for their first look at >> Python. > > As representative perpetual ignoramus & honorary newbie, I agree. I > never much noticed PyCrust until "wxPython in Action" brought it to > my attention, but I think it's great. For me, this is the replacement > for the late unlamented PythonIDE. And -- if I understand rightly -- > because it doesn't have IDLE's Tkinter underpinnings it doesn't make > writing GUI code with wxPython difficult. (I suppose its wxPython > underpinnings could make it difficult to write Tkinter code.)
This is incorrect. IDLE should work just fine with wxPython, it runs code in a subprocess. PyCrust on the other hand probably does have problems, though. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
