> Hi Stu und "Willie", > "Willie"? Thats new. ;) > I will be running it under (sigh) Windows. So? Apart from Microsoft being evil and spying on you all the time, I find much satisfaction in the fact that Windows Just Works(tm). Linux on the other hand Just Barely Works(tm). Hello flamewar :).
> I don't yet know what jython is about, or for, but I'm up for trying > jedit for python. jython is an implementation of python in java (hence the name ;)). That means it's a python interpreter inside a java virtual machine (groan). It basically lets you write java apps in python syntax. It's currently at python 2.1 I believe. jEdit is extensible though java, and with the jython plugin also through python. > Which plugins give me a good start for scientific stuff? Er ... I don't know. What do you mean by 'scientific stuff'? You might want to look at python packages such as scipy (?) or numpy (for numerical calculations) or whatever those are called. I think you can hook up python to Matlab, Scilab or Mathematica, but don't take my word for it. I don't use any of this, so I cannot really tell you more. None of this is jEdit specific though. Can you clarify? > I am not interested in Web/html apps. Too bad, that's the future ;). > And is there an IDE out there that lets us create GUI dialogs along the > lines of what MS provides with Excel and, I assume, VB? Stani's Python Editor (SPE) and Boa Constructor, I think. I've tried SPE a few years back and liked it a lot. If you only ever write python code you might want to forget about jEdit and use one of the two above. jEdit is dubbed 'Programmer's Text Editor', and as such provides a 'unified' framework for many languages (so you don't have to learn a new editor for every damn language you write in once in a blue moon). It is for that reason a /tad/ less specialized (though highly configurable). If you still want to use jEdit, there is wxGlade for wxPython out there and Glade (not wxGlade!) works for pyGTK, I believe. Hope that helps you deciding. "Willie" ;) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list