Re: A more philosophical question

2008-04-11 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ville M. Vainio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll probably want to check out the new ipy_autoreload extension Thanks for this tip. Edward --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

A more philosophical question

2008-04-10 Thread Ludwig Schwardt
Hi, I've started using Leo about 2 months ago. I intended to use it as a single point of entry for a Python toolkit I am writing from scratch, where the code is closely coupled with documentation and tests. My biggest stumbling block is that I find it hard to break out of a file-based way of

Re: A more philosophical question

2008-04-10 Thread zpcspm
Any tips for a Leo newbie on how to start a project from scratch? Here's a quote from the docs: @thin - Use this unless you have a good reason not to. It is the 'state-of-the-art' in derived files. I had a bad experience when trying to import derived files into leo as @file. After a couple of

Re: A more philosophical question

2008-04-10 Thread Ludwig Schwardt
Hi, Yes, I remember now - I did use @thin for all derived files. I haven't actively used Leo for the past few weeks, so the terminology is slipping... My problem has to do with starting with a blank myproject.leo. I don't have a clear idea of how to proceed. I initially thought I'll do a top-

Re: A more philosophical question

2008-04-10 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Ludwig Schwardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I tried to go deeper, I found it really hard to decide which files I needed where in the Leo hierarchy. And what if the code in one node needed code in another node? Do I clone it into the required node, or do I

Re: A more philosophical question

2008-04-10 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:44:39AM -0500, Edward K. Ream wrote: For programming projects, I organize my master .leo file in two ways: by topic (Notes, Projects, To Do) and by file. I use @thin files like leoNotes.txt, leoProjects.txt, leoToDo.txt and leoToDoLater.txt to keep the actual .leo

Re: A more philosophical question

2008-04-10 Thread Ville M. Vainio
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Kayvan A. Sylvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with my python code (import a file, play with its classes, test out my ideas), then update the code in Leo and back in ILeo, just reload the module and continue playing, ad infinitum. I get all the power of