Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-02-10 Thread Wayne Watson
y, 10 February, 2009 1:09:13 AM Subject: Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin You must be up 24/7! When I open a py file with pythonwin, it brings up the dialog and in its window, there are two windows. One is called interactive window (IW), and the other (script window--SW) contains the program py cod

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-02-10 Thread W W
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Eric Dorsey wrote: > You can call a .py script from the command line, and it will run there. So, > in Windows XP: Start > Run > type "CMD" > Vista: Start > type "CMD" into the Start Search field. > If you're in Linux, get to a Terminal. > In Windows another window

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-02-09 Thread Eric Dorsey
You can call a .py script from the command line, and it will run there. So, in Windows XP: Start > Run > type "CMD" Vista: Start > type "CMD" into the Start Search field. If you're in Linux, get to a Terminal. In Windows another window will open with something like...C:\FolderWithMyPyFile> Linux so

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-02-09 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html You must be up 24/7! When I open a py file with pythonwin, it brings up the dialog and in its window, there are two windows. One is called interactive window (IW), and the other (script window--SW) contains the program py code. To execute it, I press the little running ico

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-02-09 Thread ALAN GAULD
> Yes, but how do you debug the code interactively when you have > the editor outside pythonwin? Do you copy it into the pythonwin editor? Do you mean using the Python debugger? If I need to do that I will either use the command line debugger (pdb) inside the shell window or close the vim sessio

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-02-09 Thread Wayne Watson
is no right or wrong way to do it. Alan Gauld Author of the Learn To Program website http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ From: Wayne Watson To: Alan Gauld Sent: Monday, 2 February, 2009 1:00:15 PM Subject: Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin I must be missing

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-02-01 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" wrote Hi, sorry, but I have no idea what vim is, Yes, its just a text editor that runs in its own window. Its a very very powerful text editor, one of perhaps 3 or 4 that are universally used by professional programmers on any operating system they may need to work with, and

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-01-31 Thread W W
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Wayne Watson wrote: > Did I miss a response here? > > Wayne Watson wrote: > > vim? I'm looking at the interactive window now. Here are two choices for > what you say: > 1. > alt-tab vim > Traceback ( File "", line 1 > alt-tab vim > ^ > SyntaxErr

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-01-31 Thread W W
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Wayne Watson wrote: > Hi, sorry, but I have no idea what vim is, let alone how to use any of the > features. I'd still like to know why pythonwin prints almost completely > blank pages. vim=vi(m), linux?? > VIM = Vi IMproved = vim +- vi. Basically, vim is just an

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-01-31 Thread Wayne Watson
Hi, sorry, but I have no idea what vim is, let alone how to use any of the features. I'd still like to know why pythonwin prints almost completely blank pages. vim=vi(m), linux?? W W wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Wayne Watson wrote: Did I miss

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-01-31 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html Did I miss a response here? Wayne Watson wrote: vim? I'm looking at the interactive window now. Here are two choices for what you say: 1. alt-tab vim Traceback (  File "", line 1     alt-tab vim   ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax 2. Pressing the alt-tab ke

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-01-29 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html vim? I'm looking at the interactive window now. Here are two choices for what you say: 1. alt-tab vim Traceback (  File "", line 1     alt-tab vim   ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax 2. Pressing the alt-tab keys moves me to the next Windows window, which happens t

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-01-29 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html (Lateness of post here from the old Reply to All disease! It just worse. I reissued it to Alan again. Yi, yi, ...) Alan Gauld wrote: "Wayne Watson" wrote About three weeks ago I decided to give PythonWin a whirl. I believe I've noticed about as many code "wrecks" as w

Re: [Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-01-29 Thread Alan Gauld
"Wayne Watson" wrote About three weeks ago I decided to give PythonWin a whirl. I believe I've noticed about as many code "wrecks" as with IDLE. Really? I haven't had many problems. That is, while working repeatedly on a program, the editor got confused about what it had available, usua

[Tutor] IDLE vs PythonWin

2009-01-28 Thread Wayne Watson
Title: Signature.html About three weeks ago I decided to give PythonWin a whirl. I believe I've noticed about as many code "wrecks" as with IDLE. That is, while working repeatedly on a program, the editor got confused about what it had available, usually remnants of previous code. I just trie