Python learning

David Christopher Chiipman dchipman at ican.net
Mon Oct 25 00:30:25 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 09:50 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 24Oct2010 00:45, Zoltan Hoppar <hopparz at gmail.com> wrote:
> | I have up to learn python language, but as far as I know - didn't saw
> | any IDE, or editor with directly supports it. I would like to ease my
> | learning curve, and I thought to makes easier to see the stucture, and
> | the code. Maybe later on I would like to play with glade, but now - if
> | anyone has good advices - I'm open to anything.
> 
> I'm not an IDE person myself. I just use two terminal, one running vi (or vim
> or your preferred text editor (which need not need a terminal I suppose)) and
> a shell in the other to run the python script as needed.
> 
> Vim with syntax highlighting is quite pleasant (if you like vi/vim).
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> DoD#743
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
> 
> Ride to Work, Work to Ride.     - Alan W. Frame <alan.frame at acm.org>

I'm with Cameron on this, in fact, I'm surprised no one else menitoned
this as a possibility. I've used [g]vi[m], and it's syntax highlighting
for Python with al of my python programs. The one thing that might be
missing is maintaining tab stops (which are important in Python).
Later, 

-David



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