on 11/03/2007 06:44 AM Russ P. wrote : > I've been programming in python for a few years using XEmacs on > Solaris and Linux. I've been thinking about trying IDLE for a long > time, but either it wasn't available on my system or I procrastinated. > I finally have it available, and I gave it a try. > > I immediately encountered a basic problem for which I could not find a > solution in the intro docs. I want to run a script in one directory > that reads input from a file in another directory. Maybe I'm just not > very smart, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Will someone > please give me a clue? > > More generally, I don't see much discussion of IDLE on this newsgroup. > Are many python programmers using it? I see that some of the intro and > tutorial docs have not been updated for several years. Is IDLE still > actively supported? Or would I be better off just going directly to a > commercially supported IDE such as Wing? Thanks. >
I used IDLE a year ago and later I changed to the commercial IDE of Komodo, i found it quite rewarding.. if u r doing massive code, i suggest u to try some of those commercial packages! they would save u a lot of pain! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list