I highly recommend trying pyDev. 0.9 just came out, and I find 0.85
very usable and quite cool. There is nice debug support, and
context-sensitive code completion as well as real-time validation of
your code. This is an exciting project with a bright future in my opinion.
Markus.
Ashot wrote:
This is sort of both Python and Vim related (which is why I've posted
to both newsgroups).
Python related:
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I have been frustrated for quite some time with a lack of a history
command in IDLE (in fact with IDLE in general). Often I'll develop new
code at the command line, testing each line as I go. Currently I have
to copy and paste, removing outputs and the ">>>" at each line.
Is it perhaps possible to make some kind of hack to do this (dump a
command history)?
Idle in general isn't that great IMO, so I was wondering also if there
are better alternatives out there? What do people use mostly? I've
tried something called pyCrust, but this too didn't have history and
some other things I was looking for. On a more general note, although
the agility and simplicity of Python make programming tools like an IDE
less necessary, it still seems that Python is lacking in this
departement. The PyDev plug-in for Eclipse seems like good step in
this direction, although I haven't tried it yet. Does anyone have any
experience with this, or perhaps can point me to other tools.
Vim related:
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Ideally, it would be nice to have a command mapped to a keystroke that
can append the last executed command to a file. Even better would be a
system that would integrate the file editing and interactive command
line tool more seamlessly. Something along the lines of a debugger +
file editor + command line utility, where file editor = vim. I know
that vim has a utility for running python commands from its command
prompt, but I have had a hard time getting this to work in windows and
haven't explored it. Has anyone seen/tried a system along these lines,
perhaps incorporating the python debugger (pdb)? I can see something
that will run the file you are editing in vim up to the cursor or a
mark with a set_trace at the line you are editing.
Any info is appreciated, thanks.
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Ashot Petrosian
University of Texas at Austin, Computer Sciences
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