Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-10 Thread greg
Nicola Musatti wrote: It's in *commercial* projects that features nobody really needs are not implemented. Profit is fundamental in convincing you that you really need the features. In Soviet Russia, you don't need features, features need *you*. -- Greg --

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-10 Thread Douglas Alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: half of the community is happy with Emacs and the other half wants to program in a VS-like environment, neither consensus nor progress has Calling all vi/vim users (and we'll heartily appreciate the support of

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-06 Thread Ben Finney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: half of the community is happy with Emacs and the other half wants to program in a VS-like environment, neither consensus nor progress has Calling all vi/vim users (and we'll heartily appreciate the support

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-06 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-07-06, Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: half of the community is happy with Emacs and the other half wants to program in a VS-like environment, neither consensus nor progress has Calling all vi/vim users (and we'll heartily appreciate the

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-06 Thread Ed Jensen
Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling all vi/vim users (and we'll heartily appreciate the support of TextMate fans, BBEdit ones, etc, etc) -- we're at risk being defined out of existence, since we're neither happy with Emacs nor wanting anything like Visual Studio, and yet Kay claims

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-06 Thread J Sisson
On 7/6/07, Ed Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling all vi/vim users (and we'll heartily appreciate the support of TextMate fans, BBEdit ones, etc, etc) -- we're at risk being defined out of existence, since we're neither happy with Emacs nor wanting

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread kimiraikkonen
Thanks for the links and replies, taking care. My another aim is: Can i develop graphical applications (like in Windows) which contain menus, interactive dialog boxes etc. using Ptyhon? I got it quite but not sure. I don't know Ptyhon's capability skills for creating interactive softwares like

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Jul 3, 8:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: Python is simply easier than C++; you might well find that a debugger, for example, doesn't feel as essential as it is for you with C++. That's what I love most about the Python community. Whenever there is just a non-standard,

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Gregor Horvath
kimiraikkonen schrieb: My another aim is: Can i develop graphical applications (like in Windows) which contain menus, interactive dialog boxes etc. using Ptyhon? I got it quite but not sure. I don't know Ptyhon's capability skills for creating interactive softwares like in Windows's

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Gregor Horvath
Kay Schluehr schrieb: That's what I love most about the Python community. Whenever there is just a non-standard, platform-dependent or crappy implementation of a feature you get told that you don't need it. When printf was good for little David print is good enough for me. That's a

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Thomas Heller
QOTW? Gregor Horvath schrieb: That's a property of open source projects. Features nobody really needs are not implemented. Gregor -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Roy Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicola Musatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 5, 1:23 pm, Gregor Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] That's a property of open source projects. Features nobody really needs are not implemented. No, no, you got it all wrong. It's in *commercial* projects

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Nicola Musatti
On Jul 5, 1:23 pm, Gregor Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] That's a property of open source projects. Features nobody really needs are not implemented. No, no, you got it all wrong. It's in *commercial* projects that features nobody really needs are not implemented. Profit is fundamental

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kay Schluehr wrote: On Jul 3, 8:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: Python is simply easier than C++; you might well find that a debugger, for example, doesn't feel as essential as it is for you with C++. That's what I love most about the Python community. Whenever there is

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Paul McGuire
On Jul 5, 9:21 am, Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicola Musatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 5, 1:23 pm, Gregor Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] That's a property of open source projects. Features nobody really needs are not implemented.

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Neil Cerutti
On 2007-07-05, Paul McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 5, 9:21 am, Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicola Musatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 5, 1:23 pm, Gregor Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] That's a property of open source projects.

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 3, 8:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: Python is simply easier than C++; you might well find that a debugger, for example, doesn't feel as essential as it is for you with C++. That's what I love most

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Jul 5, 4:08 pm, Nicola Musatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 5, 1:23 pm, Gregor Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] That's a property of open source projects. Features nobody really needs are not implemented. No, no, you got it all wrong. It's in *commercial* projects that

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Nicola Musatti
On Jul 5, 4:21 pm, Roy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicola Musatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 5, 1:23 pm, Gregor Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] That's a property of open source projects. Features nobody really needs are not implemented.

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gregor Horvath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kimiraikkonen schrieb: My another aim is: Can i develop graphical applications (like in Windows) which contain menus, interactive dialog boxes etc. using Ptyhon? I got it quite but not sure. I don't know Ptyhon's

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread kimiraikkonen
I just wanted a simple answer to my simple question, however topic has messed up. Think questioner as a beginner and use more understandable terms to help :) Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Mark Morss
On Jul 1, 3:30 pm, Sönmez Kartal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emacs is the best for anything for me. Me too. Also, as pointed out by some others, a debugger is not really all that necessary for an interpreted language like Python. Hi, For experienced with Pyhton users, which developing software

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Jul 5, 7:18 pm, kimiraikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted a simple answer to my simple question, however topic has messed up. Think questioner as a beginner and use more understandable terms to help :) Thanks. The problem is simply that the Python community has failed in this

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Alex Popescu
On Jul 5, 5:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay Schluehr wrote: On Jul 3, 8:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: Python is simply easier than C++; you might well find that a debugger, for example, doesn't feel as essential as it is for you with C++.

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Jason
On Jul 1, 1:10 pm, kimiraikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For experienced with Pyhton users, which developing software and enviroment would you suggest for Pyhton programming? Compiler+Editor +Debugger. That would depend on what platform(s) you would be developing on, what development

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:13:29 -0700, Kay Schluehr wrote: On Jul 5, 7:18 pm, kimiraikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted a simple answer to my simple question, however topic has messed up. Think questioner as a beginner and use more understandable terms to help :) Thanks. The

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Alex Martelli
Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... half of the community is happy with Emacs and the other half wants to program in a VS-like environment, neither consensus nor progress has Calling all vi/vim users (and we'll heartily appreciate the support of TextMate fans, BBEdit ones, etc, etc) --

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Kay Schluehr
On Jul 6, 12:13 am, Alex Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 5, 5:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kay Schluehr wrote: On Jul 3, 8:12 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) wrote: Python is simply easier than C++; you might well find that a debugger, for

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-05 Thread Gregor Horvath
Kay Schluehr schrieb: The problem is simply that the Python community has failed in this respect. There are many platform dependent and ideology driven ways to do deal with code editing / debugging but not actually a recommend or pythonic way. Other than Smalltalk, Python has not created an

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-03 Thread ed
for my part, i'm a big fan of DrPython for writing python code (especially on windows). http://drpython.sourceforge.net/ you will need wxPython to have it running though It's not per se an IDE but it has a lot of feature to help you writing with some interesting plug- ins. You can launch code

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-03 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kimiraikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the replies so far. Also i have to learn: What is the most reliable and easy way to start learning Ptyhon? Books? Trusted code sammples(where?)? . .

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-02 Thread evil tabby cat
On Jul 2, 5:10 am, kimiraikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For experienced with Pyhton users, which developing software and enviroment would you suggest for Pyhton programming? Compiler+Editor +Debugger. Also what are your suggestions for beginners of Pyhton programming? Thank you.

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-02 Thread kimiraikkonen
On Jul 2, 3:49 pm, evil tabby cat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 2, 5:10 am, kimiraikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For experienced with Pyhton users, which developing software and enviroment would you suggest for Pyhton programming? Compiler+Editor +Debugger. Also what are your

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-02 Thread kimiraikkonen
Thanks for the replies so far. Also i have to learn: What is the most reliable and easy way to start learning Ptyhon? Books? Trusted code sammples(where?)? I know the importance and eases of Python quiet. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread kimiraikkonen
Hi, For experienced with Pyhton users, which developing software and enviroment would you suggest for Pyhton programming? Compiler+Editor +Debugger. Also what are your suggestions for beginners of Pyhton programming? Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread Sönmez Kartal
Hello, Emacs is the best for anything for me. Some people prefers Eclipse with PyDev extension. Build some real world applications with Python. Pick what do you need from SourceForge or similar one then write it. If it is something you need then you probably will make it more special then you

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread kimiraikkonen
On Jul 1, 10:30 pm, Sönmez Kartal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Emacs is the best for anything for me. Some people prefers Eclipse with PyDev extension. Build some real world applications with Python. Pick what do you need from SourceForge or similar one then write it. If it is something

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread kimiraikkonen
On Jul 1, 10:30 pm, Sönmez Kartal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Emacs is the best for anything for me. Some people prefers Eclipse with PyDev extension. Build some real world applications with Python. Pick what do you need from SourceForge or similar one then write it. If it is something

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread kimiraikkonen
On Jul 1, 10:30 pm, Sönmez Kartal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Emacs is the best for anything for me. Some people prefers Eclipse with PyDev extension. Build some real world applications with Python. Pick what do you need from SourceForge or similar one then write it. If it is something

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread Roy Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kimiraikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For experienced with Pyhton users, which developing software and enviroment would you suggest for Pyhton programming? Compiler+Editor +Debugger. Also what are your suggestions for beginners of Pyhton programming?

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread cyberco
There is one tool you won't be able to live without: iPython (no, it's not an Apple product, but it would be worth waiting in line for 3 days for) http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread Stef Mientki
Thank you for the suggestions. I'd prefer a GUI-based, helpful and easy-implemention skilled enviroment. Tesekkurler Sayin Kartal :-) then first decide which graphical package you want to use, because that limits your choice. cheers, Stef Mientki --

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread kimiraikkonen
On Jul 1, 10:59 pm, Stef Mientki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the suggestions. I'd prefer a GUI-based, helpful and easy-implemention skilled enviroment. Tesekkurler Sayin Kartal :-) then first decide which graphical package you want to use, because that limits your choice.

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread Laurent Pointal
kimiraikkonen wrote: Hi, For experienced with Pyhton users, which developing software and enviroment would you suggest for Pyhton programming? Compiler+Editor +Debugger. Also what are your suggestions for beginners of Pyhton programming? Under Windows, take a look at PyScripter. For

Re: The best platform and editor for Python

2007-07-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kimiraikkonen wrote: Hi, For experienced with Pyhton users, which developing software and enviroment would you suggest for Pyhton programming? Compiler+Editor +Debugger. I use standard CPython bytecode compiler/virtual machine, the Vim editor, and standard pdb for debugging. Vim is nice as