[wplug] Python code development

[Pat Barron]

This may be much too heavyweight for what you want to do (and I will 
admit to not being a Python person, so I could easily be talking out of 
my hat...), but PyDev may also help you here, if you're comfortable with 
Eclipse:

http://pydev.org

--Pat.

On 11/22/2013 11:35 AM, Matthew Zwier wrote:
> The ipython notebook is absolutely phenomenal for this.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Bruce Adams <bruce.adams at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Will Python's built-in "reload" do what you want?
>>
>>
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/684171/how-to-re-import-an-updated-package-while-in-python-interpreter
>>
>> - Bruce
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013, at 10:57 AM, Mike Sussman wrote:
>>> Thank you for your response, Rod, but I am asking a MUCH simpler
>>> question than the one you answered.
>>>
>>> I am not trying to use Matlab code inside python or anything, I am just
>>> trying to transfer my comfortable and efficient approach to code
>>> development from Matlab to python.
>>>
>>> When I am using Matlab, I have an editor and the interpreter up in
>>> different windows (I use various flavors of Linux).  The editor contains
>>> a partially-competed version of some code.  I execute it in the Matlab
>>> interpreter by typing the name of the file.  Then I can examine the
>>> results in the interpreter and try writing a few more lines in the
>>> interpreter.  When I am happy with them, I copy them to the file and do
>>> it all again for more new code.
>>>
>>> If I bring up the python interpreter and import an existing file, I can
>>> check results in the interpreter and write new code, and copy it to the
>>> file.  BUT I cannot import that file again, so I must exit the python
>>> interpreter (ctrl-D) and start the interpreter again from the command
>>> line.  Is there a better way to do that?
>>>
>>> On 11/22/2013 10:18 AM, Rod Person wrote:
>>>> On 11/22/2013 10:04 AM, Mike Sussman wrote:
>>>>> I am an experienced Matlab programmer and am beginning to use python
>> for
>>>>> some scientific applications.  My question is how python programmers
>> do
>>>>> their work.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I develop new code in Matlab, I have the editor open and, as I
>>>>> add to
>>>>> the code, I can quickly test the new additions with a single command
>>>>> that
>>>>> re-reads my file and tests the new code.  I do not know how to do the
>>>>> same
>>>>> thing in python.  If I am writing a new .py file, I either have to
>>>>> import
>>>>> it or I have to exit python and start python again.  Either of these
>>>>> seems
>>>>> to take a few annoying seconds longer than I would like to wait.  Is
>>>>> there
>>>>> a better strategy?
>>>>>
>>>>> -----------------------
>>>>> Mike Sussman
>>>> I'm not sure what you mean by "exit python and start again", unless
>>>> you are making changes to python itself or possibly CGI programming,
>>>> but I'm not familiar with making Matlab code with Python.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway in a *nix environment, I use FreeBSD, I usually have a 2nd
>>>> terminal open that I can run the make script of the python code on
>>>> working on if needed. This is if I'm using an editor such as geany.
>>>>
>>>> If I'm using Sypder or Komodo IDE, they both allow for the running and
>>>> debugging of Python code directly.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Sussman
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