[Bradford] Python IDE

[Nick Rhodes]

As someone who did Python script hacking and app dev for a number of years, I honestly think you are best using a good text editor or a lightweight IDE (such as Vim or Geany). I did try Eclipse, it was slow, offered very little that I could not get from a text editor and often broke and wasted my time too many times.

Geany for example offers code completion, symbol browsing (objects, vars and methods), code folding, folder explorer and a powerful find and replace tool. It does offer inbuilt command and compiler tools, but I preferred to leave a terminal open to run and test and tail my error logs (far more efficient and testable than using a debugger).

Cheers, Nick

> On 5 Feb 2016, at 14:04, Brian A <bradlug at hackroyd.org.uk> wrote:
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> Thanks Duncan. I've looked at  Eclipse for Android applications before. I'll try that with the Python plugin you suggest.
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> Brian
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> On Friday, 5 February 2016, 11:47, Duncan Hughes <duncster at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I use vim personally but that’s probably not the answer you want.  There’s a thing called PyDev that plugs into Eclipse that’s meant to be pretty good, it has very good multithreaded debugging facilities and I know folk that use it for that reason.
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> > On 5 Feb 2016, at 10:41, Brian A <bradlug at hackroyd.org.uk <mailto:bradlug at hackroyd.org.uk>> wrote:
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> > Can anyone recommend an IDE for Python please?
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> > Brian
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