In a way it is better than most programmers text editors because although it is missing some of the advanced editor features these offer it does come with an embedded python interpreter and debugger.
Ronald On Oct 27, 2006, at 4:26 AM, David Worrall wrote:
no need for a file? then enjoy the delights of the interpreter. just $ /usr/bin/python (at the prompt) will get you the interpreter at which you can play around. sometimes I do that whilst I'm trying to work out what I want (by looking at the results of various processes) and then drag/copy and past into a text edit doco when it's right, and sometimes the reverse, especially for looping structures. That afterall is one of the beauties of interpreted languages ... you don't need to know what you want until you see the it .. This means that it is a tool for thought rather than just a tool for executing a known idea. All the best w. python. I've programmed in everything from fortran II , pascal, snobol, apl, forth, c, assemblers etc etc and python for 7 years on all sorts of platforms. These days there has to be a pretty convincing argument for me to use anything else. ---David On 26/10/2006, at 7:28 PM, Rodney Somerstein wrote:Thanks Chris and David for the suggestions. I'm already aware of other editors. But, as I mentioned, I'm currently learning Python and an environment that actually lets me execute python code without having to first create and save a file is superior for that purpose, in my opinion. I already own BBEdit and have for many years. So, when I start actually writing real code, I will likely use that.For what it' worth, perhaps to save you some time, I recently spent a day evaluating these tools. Horses for courses, but for me: TextWrangler is a freebie BBEditLite - a very nice word-processor which is keyword aware; SPE is a full-blown development environment which includes wxglade interface to wxwindows I found it difficult to 'grock' quickly but it could be good ScrIDE is 1/2 way between. David On 26/10/2006, at 2:13 AM, Christopher Barker wrote:While we're at it, if all you want is a Python-aware editor -- then there area a lot of other (better?) options. Scan the archives of this list for suggestions. A few: BBEdit (TextWrangler?) Eclipse SPE Jedit ScrIDE Assorted *nix editors: emaca, VIm, etc, etc. or look here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors -Chris-- Rodney Somerstein Always remember that you are unique... [EMAIL PROTECTED] just like everyone else. _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig_______________________________________ experimental polymedia: www.avatar.com.au Sonic Communications Research Group, University of Canberra: www.canberra.edu.au _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
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