Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Gauld
Tom Green xchime...@gmail.com wrote Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I could transition away from the IDE world to VIM. With great difficulty and to be honest I wouyldn't bother. If

[Tutor] Discussion of super

2009-06-14 Thread Skipper Seabold
Hello all, I am working under the umbrella of the Python Software Foundation for the Google Summer of Code and am keeping a blog about the work. Part of my work is refactoring and extending some existing code. This code makes use of Python's super, and so I am trying to understand the ins and

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Gauld
Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote Some of this might just be what we are used to too. Remember that IDEs as such didn't really come into existence till about 12-15 years Sigh! I'm getting old In fact the first thing I would call an IDE in the modern sense was probably Turbo

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Carlos Zuniga
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Waynesri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Mike Hoy hoy...@gmail.com wrote: Try out Vim. It may take you a week to get used to it. Best thing I ever did was finally get started on Vim. Once I got used to it I was very happy. Google around

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Gauld
Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote [ And of course Smalltalk80 had a very complete IDE in 1980, (See Squeek screenshots for some idea of how it differs from modern GUIs!) but Smalltalk has always been an exception to the rules! ] I'm not doing well today. Since I last looked

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Kurt Bendl
I've been pretty happy with WingIDE from wingware and have been impressed with the give-away version of Komodo from ActiveState. My fall back editor when I'm in a hurry on mac is still TextMate. Knowing my way around vim is essential, but I just can't commit to it as my primary editor.

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 6/14/2009 8:04 AM Alan Gauld said... Tom Green xchime...@gmail.com wrote Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I could transition away from the IDE world to VIM. With great

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Michael Powe
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:53:19PM -0700, Emile van Sebille wrote: On 6/14/2009 8:04 AM Alan Gauld said... Tom Green xchime...@gmail.com wrote Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Tom Green
Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I could transition away from the IDE world to VIM. My main issue is how do I go about using VIM to debug my code? With Pyscripter and other IDES its as

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread johnf
On Saturday 13 June 2009 02:44:53 am Eddie wrote: Hi guys, What would you regard as the best free Python editor to use on Windows for a new guy? Searching Google i see that there is quite a few out there and is VIM the best one to go with? Regards Eddie

Re: [Tutor] Best Python Editor

2009-06-14 Thread Wayne
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Tom Green xchime...@gmail.com wrote: Since VIM seems to be the editor of choice and I have been programming in Python for many years using Pyscripter and Eclipse I was wondering how I could transition away from the IDE world to VIM. My main issue is how do I