Hi Andre, Thank you for the information. It sounds like full support in Qt Creator for Python is still a ways off. I suppose for the time being we'll have to use some other IDE for Python development (such as Aptana).
Thanks, Alfonso On Tue, Nov 26, 2013, at 12:56 PM, André Pönitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:41:11AM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My colleagues and I already use Qt Creator for all our Qt development. > > That's nice to hear. > > > We will be writing a fair amount of Python for one of our upcoming > > projects and would love to continue using Qt Creator for Python > > development. While Qt Creator already seems to have Python syntax > > highlighting and auto-indentation, auto-completion for Python still > > seems to be missing. > > Indeed. > > > Are there plans to provide auto-completion functionality for Python in > > the near future? What about built-in support for pdb and other Python > > debuggers? In general, what is the roadmap (if there is one) for making > > Qt Creator a great Python IDE? > > There are two stories here. > > 1. Since the PythonEditor is now part of the main code base, it will be > maintained to the degree that it will be kept compilable and usable after > changes to core infrastructure. But that's about it. Feature development > of the Python support is currently not on the roadmap of the core team > and my personal bet would be that it won't end up there anytime soon. > > 2. I once had some (absolutely basic, a bit stepping, breakpoints, data > display, no threads etc) Python debugging based on pdb running as "yet > another use case" when working on the "debugger backend abstraction" for > Creator. That's dysfunctional right now, but reviving it should be > straightforward, less than a day of work. I have also a semi-functional > qlalr based scanner for Python 2 hanging around, but going from there to > a > real parser, integrating that properly, together with some kind of > project > explorer integration or "project management" would be quite some effort. > If someone wants to work into that direction I'd happily help to > integrate > stuff, and perhaps handle the debugging side, but not much more than > that. > > Andre' _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
