Thanks a lot, but I'd like free IDE, without cost.

Il giorno venerdì 26 gennaio 2018 13:32:14 UTC+1, Jim S ha scritto:
>
> Great post Mirek!
>
> I can confirm that paid PyCharm does work better with web2py than the 
> Community version. What I like about PyCharm is that in addition to a 
> Python IDE, you also get a good editor for HTML, javascript, CSS and a nice 
> database editor if you're using the paid version.
>
> If not using the paid version or using some other IDE that isn't 
> web2py-aware, see this section of the book:
>
>
> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/14/other-recipes#Using-general-purpose-IDEs-with-web2py
>
> -Jim
>
> On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 5:08:47 PM UTC-6, Mirek Zvolský wrote:
>>
>> If you use a simple editor only, it is similar as the work with web2py 
>> integrated environment. You can just create and edit python files.
>> Of course the suitable editor must be special for Python writting: It 
>> must at least convert the Tab into 4 spaces. And work with utf-8.
>>
>> If you want more, then use some Python IDE.
>> What means more? Intellisense, Find strings through all projects folders 
>> and files, Find usages of defined fuction or class (in all files), Go to 
>> function or class definitions through click on their call/usage, ...
>> You have about 30 different Python IDE's to choose your best. I have no 
>> good knowledge about all of them. I just have worked short time with 
>> Eclipse and now about 3 years with PyCharm.
>> From my opinion when I compare Eclipse and PyCharm, then PyCharm is much 
>> much better. I speak about stability and speed. I cannot compare 
>> properties, because I still use just basics from PyCharm. Example: I still 
>> debug with the command line "from pdb import set_trace; set_trace()" 
>> instead to use the Python integrated debugger.
>> However I believe PyCharm solution is excellent in such areas too. At 
>> least I hear some experienced developers to say so.
>>
>> PyCharm has the free ("community") edition. And has a payed edition. I 
>> use the free edition.
>> Web2py is special Python software - model+controller+view run in same 
>> scope, which was earlier prepared by Web2py internals. It makes things a 
>> little easier for you because you have some useful things already imported 
>> (request, response, session, html helpers, names from model). This is crazy 
>> for the Python purists because they say: this is completly bad; this is not 
>> Python, when you have inside the file some names from outside which are not 
>> imported. I think, for the developer itself it is not so much bad. Because 
>> we have here the limited number of well known and often used names and the 
>> developer know from where these names come.
>>
>> However it is serious problem for the IDE. If you have nice pure Python 
>> code, where the names are from the current file or they are imported, then 
>> for the IDE is easy to find name references in other files.
>> Here I am not sure if following is true (could somebody confirm it?), but 
>> I think: Payed PyCharm version has improved support for Web2py to help find 
>> the references, but free version hasn't such support. That means you cannot 
>> work with Web2py excellent in the free version. Instead you still work very 
>> poor, not much better as in the basics editors. Yes, a little better. 
>> Clicking or rightclicking the name can find the reference in same file. But 
>> to search the whole project, you cannot do this. You are however able to 
>> search the name as string through all files of the project. Which is fast 
>> too, but not so fast as Ctrl+click or RightClick+FindUsages.
>>
>> I think you will make no mistake when you learn to work with PyCharm. 
>> Regardless the possibilities can be (for Web2py) limited with regard to the 
>> previous.
>>
>> I don't know about Windows IDE's (Visual Studio) and probably they can be 
>> good for you if you work with other programming languages in same IDE too 
>> (if you already know such IDE).
>> However PyCharm belongs to the family of JetBrains company IDE's. So you 
>> can use same environment in other programming languages too. However not 
>> everything from JetBrains is for free.
>>
>> And of course there is other way: A hard way for the beginning but during 
>> 6 months I think you will be happy. Install double boot Windows+Linux (even 
>> better, if you know Linux has not some fatal problem with your hardware, 
>> then remove Windows and install Linux only). Then use 
>> Python+VirtualEnv+PyCharm.
>> VirtualEnv is not absolutely neccessary. However you should understand, 
>> that more and more parts of Linux system are written in Python.
>> Example: You will use Debian on your notebook (which I can recommend (but 
>> of course there is a lot of good possibilities): Debian Stable for highest 
>> stability or Debian Testing for newer software versions (which is probably 
>> good for the developers machine). In Debian (and I think all other Linux 
>> distributions) Python2 and Python3 are already installed (because part of 
>> system and lot of software use them) and packaging system has lot of 
>> python2-xxx or python3-xxx packages which are installed together with some 
>> additional (later installed) software.
>> And this is the problem: Distributions contains some versions of python 
>> and of python-packages. However with system updates the versions can be 
>> upgraded !
>> So you have possibility: You can develop your software with system 
>> versions of Python and its components, and fix the behaviour when the 
>> system versions will change. This is possible but not the best solution.
>> Better is install and activate virtualenv for the project folder. Then 
>> you will work with fixed versions and you will upgrade versions when YOU 
>> will want.
>>
>> With Python3.4+ you have no need to install virtualenv. Just call: 
>> python3 -m venv venvdirectory/
>> Then you can switch the paths with: . venvdirectory/bin/activate
>> and you have the proper python+pip version and you can install what you 
>> want with: pip install ....
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dne středa 24. ledna 2018 22:28:05 UTC+1 Andrea Fae' napsal(a):
>>>
>>> Web2py integrated ide environment is not bad, but with limited 
>>> debugging, no intellisense and so on.
>>> I'd like to know what is a completely free IDE for using with web2py. 
>>> Visual Studio Community? Visual Code Editor? In which way? How can I 
>>> integrate web2py with these IDE? Is it possible? 
>>> Can you suggest the best free IDE for web2py, with HTML, CSS, Javascript 
>>> and, obviously Python 2?
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>

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