IDLE--what are your experiences with it?

[Kevin Walzer]

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I'm looking for other peoples' viewpoints about their experiences with
IDLE as an editor--what are its good points? What are its limitations?
Any advice/insight is appreciated.

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Kevin Walzer, PhD
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[Gabriel Cooper]

I'm looking for other peoples' viewpoints about their experiences with
IDLE as an editor--what are its good points? What are its limitations?
Any advice/insight is appreciated.

When I was in windows I used Idle more often, it was just as easy to
pull up idle as it was a command line. However even then I ended up
using command line python more often than Idle since I was running my
own apps from the command line. Now that I'm on linux I never use Idle.
And either way, I only ever used the command line interpreter (or Idle)
to verify syntax before putting it into my code.

e.g.

"Hm... I don't recall... is the four-year date in datetime %Y or %y?"

So I'll pull up python, get my answer, close python, continue on in my
"real" editor.

Gabriel.

 

[Ivo Woltring]

Under windows I don't user IDLE but the PythonWin 2.3.3
I thinkt PythonWin (from ActiveState.com) is much better
It should be the one in the official distribution and not IDLE

Greetz,
Ivo.

 

[Josiah Carlson]

I'm looking for other peoples' viewpoints about their experiences with
IDLE as an editor--what are its good points? What are its limitations?
Any advice/insight is appreciated.

It is a decent editor for a handful of files at a time. The moment you
get beyond just a few documents; your taskbar becomes cluttered with
entries. It also doesn't have code folding, project support, ...

- Josiah

 

[Y2KYZFR1]

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I'm looking for other peoples' viewpoints about their experiences with
IDLE as an editor--what are its good points? What are its limitations?
Any advice/insight is appreciated.

it is the lowest common denominator.

there are MUCH MUCH better alternatives

www.xored.com has a nice plugin for Eclipse 3.x

that is much better than IDLE

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Under windows I don't user IDLE but the PythonWin 2.3.3
I thinkt PythonWin (from ActiveState.com) is much better
It should be the one in the official distribution and not IDLE

It's not portable... IDLE is Tkinter based, and runs on
practically all platforms that support Python.

PythonWin is WINDOWS ONLY...

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[Ivo Woltring]

thanks will try it out

Kevin Walzer <[email protected]> wrote in message

it is the lowest common denominator.

there are MUCH MUCH better alternatives

www.xored.com has a nice plugin for Eclipse 3.x

that is much better than IDLE