On Mar 20, 11:44 am, Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jmDesktop wrote: > > On Mar 20, 11:21 am, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2008-03-20, jmDesktop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Hi, I'm trying to learn Python. I using Aquamac an emac > >>> implementation with mac os x. I have a program. If I go to the > >>> command prompt and type pythong myprog.py, it works. Can the program > >>> be run from within the editor or is that not how development is done? > >>> I ask because I was using Visual Studio with C# and, if you're > >>> familiar, you just hit run and it works. On Python do I use the > >>> editor for editing only and then run the program from the command > >>> line? > > Sort of. Modern editors generally have support for building and running > your program directly from a toolbar button or textual command. I > personally use Vim with the toolbar disabled, running in a Terminal, and > run the program by first putting Vim in the background (^z). > > People writing code specific to Mac, but not necessarily all in Python, > often use XCode. > > http://zovirl.com/2006/07/13/xcode-python/ > > In the Ruby community, Vim is the dominant choice, but a lot of Mac > users swear by TextMate. > > http://macromates.com/ > > >>http://www.google.com/search?q=emacs+python > > Gee. Thanks. > > I believe Grant was suggesting that Emacs often serves a similar purpose > on Unix to what Visual Studio does on Windows, which seemed to be what > you were asking. When asking about Mac OS X here, you are likely to get > a lot of generic Unix responses. (Would it have been clearer if he had > just said "emacs?")
No. Typically when someone posts a one-liner search it means go figure it out and stop bothering "us." I had already searched. I could not get it to work, which is why I posted. If I took it wrong I apologize. I really had two questions. One is just how to run a program from within the editor and the other is if my thinking on how development is done in python wrong to start with. Most of my non-Windows programs have been on Unix using vi, but it has been a while. I'm used to writing a program in visual studio and running it. If that's the wrong expectation for python programming in emacs, then I wanted to know. Thanks for your help. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list