Re: [Tutor] Python Editor/IDE was Why difference between printing string & typing its object reference at the prompt?

2012-10-11 Thread Alan Gauld
On 11/10/12 08:56, Mark Lawrence wrote: an awesome difference to my productivity. Quite why I was happy to slag off Eclipse maybe six months ago I don't know. Does a good sized portion of humble pie make amends? Eclipse is a heavyweight tool designed for heavyweight problems. For the averag

[Tutor] Python Editor/IDE was Why difference between printing string & typing its object reference at the prompt?

2012-10-11 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 03/10/2012 04:15, boB Stepp wrote: After much diddling around I have finally settled on a text to study (Programming in Python 3, 2nd edition, by Mark Summerfield) and have defaulted to using IDLE, deferring worrying about editors/IDEs until I feel comfortable in Python. I've been using Ecl

Re: [Tutor] python editor / IDE

2008-10-31 Thread W W
Denis, You'll find that most editing is subjective - people use what they're comfortable with. My recommendation to you, since you love notepad++ and are obviously comfortable with it; set it as your default editor and install IPython, then use the %ed magic function to work on your code; or have

[Tutor] python editor / IDE

2008-10-31 Thread spir
Hello, I have read tons of reviews of editors for python. But they seem to be all biased, meaning that what the author finds important is well documented while the rest not at all. I'm looking for something like a simple table showing main features for all editors or IDEs. Do you know of anyt