On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Daniel Roseman <dan...@roseman.org.uk>wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 8, 2011 8:30:54 PM UTC, Karen McNeil wrote:
>>
>> I have three Django sites that I've been working on recently and I've
>> been doing most of the development work in Dreamweaver.  I don't use
>> any of the wysiwyg features (or, pretty much, any of the Dreamweaver
>> program features), but I like it because I can do all the the code
>> edits and the FTP transfers all in one program.  I like being able to
>> grab a remote file, make some code changes, save and upload all at
>> once, and view a nice graphical display of the file structure for the
>> local and remote sites.
>>
>> Problem is, Dreamweaver's code view is definitely not built for
>> Python, and it doesn't look like they have any plans to support it any
>> time in the foreseeable future.  Which means that I get no color-
>> coding of the code, and I'm constantly getting indentation errors.
>>
>> I've always had Dreamweaver on my computer (a Mac) and so have never
>> used a separate FTP program, and the only IDE I've ever used is IDLE.
>> I used IDLE when I was first learning Python, but now that I'm working
>> with the websites, I find it much more convenient to just open the
>> files from within DW.  Does anyone know of another, Python-friendly,
>> program that I could use for both code-editing and ftp?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Karen
>
>
> Don't do this. Please. Really really really don't do this.
>
> It is an incredibly bad idea to edit code and upload it directly to the
> site. There are so many easy ways to break the site. You should be storing
> your code in a version control system, and exporting and deploying from
> there. FTPing code to the live server is a disaster waiting to happen.
>

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