[Python Edinburgh] Python IDEs

[Mark Smith]

Hey! Ack looks pretty cool!

By bizarre coincidence, I bookmarked 'grin'[1] this morning, which does many
of the same things (but not all), and is written in Python, so must be
better ;-)

--Mark

[1]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/grin

On 25 October 2010 14:23, Dougal Matthews <dougal85 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Monday, 25 October 2010 at 14:09, Mark Smith wrote:
>
> Dougal's right that Pydev's auto-completion can make life a lot easier if
> you can't quite remember the name of a function, but Eclipse is a bit of a
> behemoth.
>
> I used to have a problem remembering where to import a function from rather
> than the name itself. With pydev it has a nice feature that you can hit ctrl
> + space after typing something, like "login_" then you will see various
> options and one of them should be login_required (in
> django.contrib.auth.decorators iirc) when selecting that it'll finish the
> function call and add the import line at the top (but not in alphabetical
> order - grrr).
>
> I've never actually found a replacement for this functionality but I've
> gotten used to not having it either. The danger here is that it can s
> ometimes import from the wrong place (where is still works but its not the
> official API) - importing CharField from django.forms.fields rather than
> just django.forms for example.
>
> Now if I need to find something I tend to just ack[1] for it and I have a
> copy of the source tree for most bit projects I work with.
>
> Dougal
>
> [1]: http://betterthangrep.com/
>
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