Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-08-05 Thread George Sconyers via Tutor
Thank you all for the feedback. As most of you pointed out I meant "IDE" instead of "compiler."  There are a lot of options for me to check out this weekend. Looking forward to cracking a case of Mountain Dew and digging in.  George Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, August 1, 2017,

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-08-01 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
Yes indeed geany is a nice editor. I used it when i was beginning and even wrote a post about it, Feel free to check it ! https://abdurrahmaanjanhangeer.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/python-getting-rid-of-identation-errors-quickly-checking-for-errors-and-the-use-of-editors/ On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 9:43

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-31 Thread Asokan Pichai
For a simple beginners editor -- geany is a great choice. It can be used with minimal or no configuration/set up; and once you know your way around you can tweak it as much as you want. It is easily installable on Debian/Ubuntu -- Asokan Pichai *---* We will find a way. Or, ma

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-31 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 31/07/17 13:45, Wolfgang Maier wrote: > here. There may be more powerful IDEs than IDLE, but it takes you a long > way (far beyond beginner/scripting level) And IdleX is a vastly superior, drop-in replacement, superset of IDLE. The extra features, for those interested, are described here: h

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-31 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
I may say that i was turned off by idle initially, never used it at all until i landed on another pc to teach someone. it changed my opinion on it, as it was not as horrible as expected. it was nice enough not to overwhelm a beginner. it could open and run files (and nice, at least a python editor

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 07/31/2017 02:53 PM, Chris Warrick wrote: On 31 July 2017 at 14:45, Wolfgang Maier wrote: On 07/31/2017 03:31 AM, Mats Wichmann wrote: since this all opinions :), I don't think idle is worth bothering with. for editor that can do ide like things, consider atom (free, get a bunch of plugins

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-31 Thread Chris Warrick
On 31 July 2017 at 14:45, Wolfgang Maier wrote: > On 07/31/2017 03:31 AM, Mats Wichmann wrote: >> >> since this all opinions :), I don't think idle is worth bothering with. >> for editor that can do ide like things, consider atom (free, get a bunch of >> plugins) or sublime text (not free). for a

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-31 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 07/31/2017 03:31 AM, Mats Wichmann wrote: since this all opinions :), I don't think idle is worth bothering with. for editor that can do ide like things, consider atom (free, get a bunch of plugins) or sublime text (not free). for a full ide, pycharm is great (community edition free). for a

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-31 Thread Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer
can i recommend you wing ide personal edition? a breeze. p.s. an ide cares about helping you coping with errors, syntax highlighting and ironing out some corners here and there a compiler (for a moment) just make things work for you Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer, Mauritius abdurrahmaanjanhangeer.wor

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-31 Thread Stefan Behnel
Ben Finney schrieb am 31.07.2017 um 04:24: > You might be looking for a different compiler, maybe one which compiles > not to Python byte code but instead to CPU machine code. There isn't > such a thing; The Python wiki lists several compilers for Python, although with varying levels of language c

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-30 Thread Ben Finney
George Sconyers via Tutor writes: > Hello all. I am getting started with Python and looking for a > recommended compiler for an Ubuntu environment. Python comes with a compiler: it is the ‘python’ command, which compiles your program code ‘foo.py’ to a bytecode file, typically ‘foo.pyc’. You mi

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-30 Thread Mats Wichmann
since this all opinions :), I don't think idle is worth bothering with. for editor that can do ide like things, consider atom (free, get a bunch of plugins) or sublime text (not free). for a full ide, pycharm is great (community edition free). for a lightweight ide to get started, i liked thonny

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-30 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 30/07/17 23:22, George Sconyers via Tutor wrote: > ...looking for a recommended compiler for an Ubuntu environment. In programming precision is everything. You are not in fact looking for a compiler, you are looking for a development environment or IDE. A compiler takes source code and produ

Re: [Tutor] Recommended Python Compiler

2017-07-30 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 3:22 PM, George Sconyers via Tutor wrote: > Hello all. I am getting started with Python and looking for a recommended > compiler for an Ubuntu environment. I've been using gedit but don't get the > benefit of auto-indentation and color coding of key words. It is laziness