Re: IDE recommendation please

2005-10-23 Thread kery
Alex Martelli wrote:
> microsnot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ...
>
> On the Mac, I think the XCode integration you get with PyObjC is
> probably best.  I know there are plugins for Eclipse but haven't tried
> any personally, so it's hard to make suggestions (I'm a dinosaur, and I
> prefer to develop with GVim + a command-line tool, such as Python's own
> interactive mode...).  I'm not sure if BlackAdder (simplest and fastest
> to learn) and WingIDE (probably THE one most powerful Python IDE) work
> on the Mac (shame on me, as a Python AND Mac enthusiast, for not having
> tried them...), but they're surely worth investigating.  Ditto for
> ActiveState's Komodo tool...
>
>
> Alex

Any suggestions for Linux, specifically SuSE or perhaps Red Hat?

Thanks in advance,
Kery

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Re: what would you like to see in a 2nd edition Nutshell?

2005-01-12 Thread kery
Alex Martelli wrote:
> Craig Ringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:54, Thomas Heller wrote:
> >
> > > I found the discussion of unicode, in any python book I have,
insufficient.
> >
> > I couldn't agree more. I think explicit treatment of implicit
> > conversion, the role of sysdefaultencoding, the u'' constructor and
> > unicode() built in, etc would be helpful to many.
>
> Thanks!  BTW, thanks first and foremost to Holger Krekel (who was a
very
> "activist" tech reviewer and specifically contributed a recipe for
this
> purpose), there's what I believe is a pretty good treatment of
Unicode
> in the Cookbook's forthcoming 2nd edition -- still "insufficient" in
> some sense, no doubt (it IS just a few pages), but, I believe, pretty
> good.  Nevertheless, I'll ensure I focus on this in the 2nd ed
Nutshell,
> too.
>
> > It wouldn't hurt to point C extension authors at things like the
'es'
> > encoded string format for PyArg_ParseTuple to help them make their
code
> > better behaved with non-ascii text.
>
> Good sub-point, thanks.
>
> 
> Alex

Any schedule for publication of 2nd Ed? I just bought 1st Ed.

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