Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

2017-06-03 Thread Ben Finney
C W writes: > In another word, I want to do trial and error, play with the code and > see what comes out. Not running everything from the top every time. Already suggested, but I will repeat: You will find that Jupyter Notebook https://jupyter.org/> is explicitly designed to make that easy. --

Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

2017-06-03 Thread Francois Dion
PyCharm has support for cell based notebooks, interactive python console etc. You can set up the layout so it mirrors Rstudio. Spyder should have installed correctly. How did you install? Having said that, you should also look into JupyterLab: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab, YHat's Rodeo

Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

2017-06-03 Thread C W
I want to run something from script and edit in the console. For example, pseudo code 1) I run a Monte Carlo simulation for 5 min, I got simulation results. > my_sim = mcmc(1000) 2) I calculate the mean, var, sd, of the simulated numbers > mean = sum(my_sim)/100 > and so on... 3) I want to revi

Re: [Tutor] New blog that has solution for python programs

2017-06-03 Thread Jay Lozier
On 06/02/2017 09:07 PM, Mats Wichmann wrote: I don't think "what the authors might want" is the only factor here. Personally, I think these programming challenge sites probably do more harm than good, discouraging people that they're not good enough to be a programmer because they can't solve t

Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

2017-06-03 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 03/06/17 07:20, Mike C wrote: > There is a high demand for Python in the > industry, but there has not been a good IDE. There are a ton of IDEs for Python including the generic ones like VS, Eclipse and Netbeans. But... I've tried many of these and find I keep coming back to the simpler 3-wind

Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

2017-06-03 Thread Mike C
Hi Ben, I have not used Vim or Emacs for a very long time. I am spoiled by the friendly interface of RStudio. There is a high demand for Python in the industry, but there has not been a good IDE. I find that strange. _ From: Ben Finney mailto:ben+pyt...@benfinney.i

Re: [Tutor] New blog that has solution for python programs

2017-06-03 Thread Mats Wichmann
> I don't think "what the authors might want" is the only factor here. > Personally, I think these programming challenge sites probably do more > harm than good, discouraging people that they're not good enough to be a > programmer because they can't solve the (often exceedingly tricky) > prob

Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

2017-06-03 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 06/02/2017 11:46 AM, C W wrote: > Dear Python list, > > I am an R user learning Python. What is a good editor? > > 1) Pycharm > PyCharm evaluates the entire script, I just want to change a few lines in > the script. > For example, > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > import numpy as np > >

Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

2017-06-03 Thread Zachary Ware
On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:46 PM, C W wrote: > Dear Python list, > > I am an R user learning Python. What is a good editor? > > 1) Pycharm > PyCharm evaluates the entire script, I just want to change a few lines in > the script. > For example, > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > import numpy as n

Re: [Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

2017-06-03 Thread Peter Otten
C W wrote: > Dear Python list, > > I am an R user learning Python. What is a good editor? > > 1) Pycharm > PyCharm evaluates the entire script, I just want to change a few lines in > the script. > For example, > > import matplotlib.pyplot as plt > import numpy as np > > x = np.arange(0, 1,0.1)