On 31 July 2017 at 14:45, Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.ma...@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> wrote: > On 07/31/2017 03:31 AM, Mats Wichmann wrote: >> >> since this all opinions :), I don't think idle is worth bothering with. >> for editor that can do ide like things, consider atom (free, get a bunch of >> plugins) or sublime text (not free). for a full ide, pycharm is great >> (community edition free). for a lightweight ide to get started, i liked >> thonny when i trialed it at somebody's request, but do look at that wiki >> page, tons of choices there. > > > As you're saying, it is all about opinion here so let me defend IDLE here. > There may be more powerful IDEs than IDLE, but it takes you a long way (far > beyond beginner/scripting level) and, of interest if you are ever writing > Python code on a Windows machine, typically comes installed together with > the Python interpreter there, so you will find it on many machines (even > ones you are not allowed to install other software on).
IDLE is one step up from Notepad. Which makes it a pretty terrible editor. It even lacks line numbers, which is an elementary feature, and a necessity for debugging (tracebacks!) On the other hand, some of the better editors (eg. Visual Studio Code) provide .zip packages that do not require installation and can even run off a USB stick. -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
