[Tutor] Re: [Edu-sig] RE: [Idle-dev] IDLE's save-before-run requirement

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

At 2:07 PM -0400 6/20/01, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>  > Lots of schools have iMacs and teaching Python would probably
>>  involve using IDLE on a Mac.  I tried this once.  My recollection
>>  is I didn't get the color-coding of key words.  Can anyone
>>  confirm/disconfirm this is a missing feature in Mac version?
>>  Perhaps I missed a toggle or something.
>>
>>  Kirby
>>  Python IDLE user
>
>Actually, IDLE on a Mac doesn't really work, because Tcl on a Mac
>doesn't really work.
>
>But MacPython comes with its own IDE, built by Just van Rossum (my
>brother) using the native Mac toolbox.

And he's a great help to the Mac Python community.

As Russell E Owen also pointed out today on PythonMac:

"Christopher Stern wrote a nice BBEdit Python language plugin, available from
<http://homepage.mac.com/christopherstern/>. That is the only one I know of.

Also, just for the record, the Pepper editor has Python syntax 
coloring built in. I believe Alpha may, as well."

I don't know if the BBEdit plugin works on MacOS X; I haven't tried 
either yet. (I've been using TextEdit for python mostly because I've 
been to crushed with grad school work to bother downloading and 
installing stuff)
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