The IDE thread is a recurring one. Here's my experience as another Python newbie. I tried SPE, PythonCard, PyOxice, PyPE, eclipse and wing (under x11). All work, but I found that each one had enough quirks (mostly UI inconsistencies, but some are downright unstable) that I was less productive than without. Not to sell any short, I'm sure they will get better given time.

FWIW, the winning formula for me right now is:

1) Editor: TextWrangler (http://www.barebones.com/index.shtml).
-Free, "Made For Mac", Code Colouring, Method Indexing, The ability to run scripts from the editor, More text manipulation options than I can count.


2) GuiEditor: XRCed.py (comes with the wxPython install package). (Or code the wxPython by hand, which takes longer, but gives you a little more control over the result).

3) And an instance of terminal running python interactive mode. Actually, this is the most valuable Python tool I've found so far - it's like a scratch pad where I can quickly check assumptions, or test out ideas.

The only thing I'm missing now is a debugger with breakpoints, call stack, and variable watches. I'll have to settle for random print statements for now.

-Brendan

On 8-Feb-05, at 11:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


If you try SPE, I'd be very interested to hear your results. It's beautiful, and very extensive. But I have not been able to make it work. (The same has been true for me with wxGlade. It may be my fault, or the fault of my system.)


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