[wplug] Python code development

[Bobbie Lynn Eicher]

For what it's worth, I've mostly been using IDLE in playing around with
Python. It's not fancy, but it works.

The console/interpreter is in one window, and the .py files have their own
separate windows. Hitting f5 on a .py file runs it, occasionally you may
need to swap to the interpreter window and restart the shell.

I have a feeling that people writing big programs probably want something a
little more feature-heavy, but in terms of being able to modify a file a
little and then just tap a button to see what it does, it works.


On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Mike Sussman <mmsussman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to thank each of you who has responded to my request for a "way" to
> do development of python code.  I have been running down the various
> suggestions and I like some of them very much.
>
> Bruce Adams: yes, reload works.  Somehow I passed that one by when I was
> reading the manual.  Thanks.
>
> Mattew Zwyer: The ipython notebook is really great!  It is a work-alike for
> Mathematica notebooks, and I am familiar with them, and I like it.
>
> Pat Barron: Eclipse is too heavyweight for me.  I will look at PyDev.
>
> Rod Person: I have started looking at Spyder.
>
> Oh, yes, I looked at IDLE, too.  Ugly as it is, it has the basics.
>
> Thanks again, all.
>
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> Mike Sussman
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