[Chicago] Anaconda vs. IDLE.

[Joshua Herman]

making a computer language friendly to use is quite hard people have been
doing it for the last 65 years
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:30 PM Lewit, Douglas <d-lewit at neiu.edu> wrote:

> ipython qtconsole?  Thanks Peter.  I'll try it.  Thanks so much!  Python
> by itself is really cool, but I also think the language is greatly
> strengthened by the various IDE's and third-party libraries that help
> support the language.  They are definitely big bonuses for the language.
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Pete[r] Landwehr <pmlandwehr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In addition to Spyder, but more in the vein of IDLE, there's the QT
>> console for iPython, which is similar to running ipython directly in the
>> terminal but adds mouse support and some other extra jazz; you can start it
>> with "ipython qtconsole". (See
>> https://ipython.org/ipython-doc/2/interactive/qtconsole.html)
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Tanya Schlusser <tanya at tickel.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Doug, IDLE is part of Python and should be bundled with every C
>>> implementation of Python.  This includes Anaconda's version --
>>> Anaconda's IDLE should be at:
>>>
>>> /anaconda/bin/idle
>>>
>>> which is currently the first place in your $PATH
>>>
>>> --- quote ---
>>> > Let's say I execute the following command in my bash shell:
>>> >
>>> > *echo $PATH*
>>> >
>>> > The output is below:
>>> >
>>> > *Douglass-MacBook-Pro-Mac-HD2:~ administrator$ echo $PATH*
>>> >
>>> >
>>> *//anaconda/bin:/Users/administrator/anaconda/bin:/Users/administrator/anaconda/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin*
>>> --- endquote ---
>>>
>>>
>>> If you launch idle from a terminal it should find the right one. Is
>>> there an icon you're using to launch IDLE? if so, that may be the
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> If all else fails, you can type this in a terminal:
>>>
>>> //anaconda/bin/idle
>>>
>>> and launch Anaconda's IDLE
>>>
>>>
>>> Also I may just not know what you're doing but I think Spyder, which
>>> was bundled (probably) with Anaconda, kick's Idle's behind in every
>>> way.
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