Siegfried Heintze schrieb: > I love the typing assist I get when using C# in VS2005 to write COM clients. > > I need to write a program to automate some tasks in outlook. Givin that the > typing assist feature is very important to me, what would be the best > combination of IDE and language for COM scripting? > > I was experimenting with Groovy and Eclipse and was extremely pleased to > discover that I get the typing assist with that combination. However, I'm > getting an accvio with a minimal outlook COM client. I hear great things > about Iron Python: is there a good IDE for it that has a typing assist?
You won't get it in python. Python has no type declarations, thus the IDE has no idea what type a name points to. This is true for IronPython as well. There are some other aids - for example eric (a python editor written in python, using Qt) will have API-files generated that at least let you choose the name of a method/property after you typed the first character. But you should still try and see how productive one is in python. I'm working in a Java shop, with eclipse - one of the most intimate IDE-language-relationships imaginable. I get all the auto-completion, refactoring and whatnot-support. And I'd swap it for python + emacs every minute. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
