Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Tom Green
Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I could transition away from the IDE world to VIM. My main issue is how do I go about using VIM to debug my code? With Pyscripter and other IDES its as

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread johnf
On Saturday 13 June 2009 02:44:53 am Eddie wrote: > Hi guys, > > What would you regard as the best free Python editor to use on Windows > for a new guy? Searching Google i see that there is quite a few out > there and is "VIM" the best one to go with? > > Regards > Eddie > _

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Wayne
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Tom Green wrote: > Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in > Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I > could transition away from the IDE world to VIM. My main issue is how do I > go about using V

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Tom Green" wrote Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I could transition away from the IDE world to VIM. With great difficulty and to be honest I wouyldn't bother. If you are used to e

[Tutor] Discussion of super

2009-06-14 Thread Skipper Seabold
Hello all, I am working under the umbrella of the Python Software Foundation for the Google Summer of Code and am keeping a blog about the work. Part of my work is refactoring and extending some existing code. This code makes use of Python's super, and so I am trying to understand the ins and ou

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Alan Gauld" wrote Some of this might just be what we are used to too. Remember that IDEs as such didn't really come into existence till about 12-15 years Sigh! I'm getting old In fact the first thing I would call an IDE in the modern sense was probably Turbo Pascal v4 (previous version

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Carlos Zuniga
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Wayne wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mike Hoy wrote: >> >> Try out Vim. It may take you a week to get used to it. Best thing I ever >> did was finally get started on Vim. Once I got used to it I was very happy. >> Google around for Vim tutorials. There i

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Alan Gauld" wrote [ And of course Smalltalk80 had a very complete IDE in 1980, (See Squeek screenshots for some idea of how it differs from modern GUIs!) but Smalltalk has always been an exception to the rules! ] I'm not doing well today. Since I last looked Squeak has obviously change

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Kurt Bendl
I've been pretty happy with WingIDE from wingware and have been impressed with the give-away version of Komodo from ActiveState. My fall back editor when I'm in a hurry on mac is still TextMate. Knowing my way around vim is essential, but I just can't commit to it as my primary editor. (

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/14/2009 8:04 AM Alan Gauld said... "Tom Green" wrote Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I could transition away from the IDE world to VIM. With great difficulty and to be honest

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Michael Powe
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:53:19PM -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 6/14/2009 8:04 AM Alan Gauld said... > >"Tom Green" wrote > >>Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in > >>Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I > >>could t

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Lie Ryan
Michael Powe wrote: > It's good to see so much common sense prevailing on this topic. It's good that this newsgroup is not as prevalent to being flamed. In certain other newsgroup, even (an honest and naive) mentioning of preferred editor would turn the thread into World War E. > An > IDE such