On 2020-07-29 at 11:20:42 +0100, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > I have a few python programs that I have written which I need to do > some fairly extensive changes to (to get from gtk to gobject and to > move to Python 3). This is on a Linux (xubuntu 20.04) system. I use > the command line to do just about everything (even though the program > is GUI!) and so I tend to edit in one window and test in an adjacent > window on the same screen, I don't find GUI development environments > comfortable.
+1. All of it. Except that I'm on Arch rather than XUbuntu, and our definitions of "one window" and "adjacent" likely vary. > However with this more major change to do I really need a > 'development' copy of the code as well as the live working copy as > it's likely I will take a few days to do the changes (as in an hour or > so each day over some days) and I need the ability to use the program > meanwhile. Given that you develop in production, you might be better off thinking of the Python3 version as a new program rather than a simple maintenance upgrade of the existing one. > ... does anyone else have this command line based sort of approach > and, if so, what do they do to provide a 'development version' of a > program in parallel with a working version? > I guess virtualenv (Python 2) and venv (Python 3) address this problem > but they do feel rather more complex than I actually need and I'm not > very clear how you move code from the virtual environment to 'live'. > There's also the issue that I'm moving code from Python 2 to Python 3 > so which virtual environment should I use? All my development takes place under ~/src, which is mostly under source coontrol, but not under virtual environments. When I'm satisfied, I "release" or "install" to ~/bin and/or ~/lib by copying the relevant file(s). Too many years of work-related production environments being unavailable or unsuitable for development (unless you squint just right at the times I used to patch machine code on a hardware emulator). HTH, YMMV, etc. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
