Actually, I had gotten comfortable with using IDLE a few weeks ago, and
just put a short cut to the program within easy reach. I'd edit then
execute with the icon. One day, I happened to hit F5 and it executed
the program properly. Somehow I drifted back to the old way,
unsuspectingly. Not good. Maybe there's a way to disable F5!!! Maybe
it's just too close to F3!
Marc Tompkins wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Wayne
Watson <sierra_mtnv...@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
I'm willing to give vim a
shot. I believe in an earlier thread
unrelated to this, Alan suggested it. I'm perhaps incorrectly assuming
vim will take care of the Tkinter problem. If these editors aren't
really the source of some the error reporting problem, then I'm going
to have to come up with new thinking or some tactic that will get to
the real errors. If there is an influence of the editors, then I would
think it has something to do with the interface to Python, so it comes
down to which editor has the best or most stable interface with
Python. When Alan suggested it, there was something about the apparent
awkwardness of executing the code, which made me pass on it. I'm going
back to find out what that was.
The problem is not with IDLE as an editor, but with IDLE as a shell.
You can edit your code in any editor, and as long as it doesn't slip
funky hidden characters into your file (not an issue with any normal
text editor AFAIK, but you definitely don't want to use Word!) it will
make NO difference to your code. The problem with IDLE is that it
tries to be an IDE (Integrated Development Environment - in other
words, you can edit the code, execute it, debug it, get rudimentary
language help all in one program) and it does a p#$$-poor job of it.
Alan's advice is to avoid the IDE approach and get used to editing your
program in one window and running it in another - after all, that's how
your users will see it. And it's good advice and a valid approach.
Myself, I like using an IDE - the one thing I used to like about using
Visual Studio was the integration. So I use SPE, which is an IDE and
(IMHO) a good one. It does not matter in the slightest which tool you
use, as long as that tool does not get in your way.
(Actually, I may be misrepresenting Alan and Vim a bit - I don't use it
myself. You can run external programs from inside of vim, so Alan's
desktop may look more like a traditional IDE than I'm imagining.)
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