[Edu-sig] re: Python Briefing for Faculty

[Kirby Urner]

Yeah, I think I was just knee-jerk responding to Markus concluding 
statement:  "I do all my Python development with SciTE and prefere 
it to IDLE."

When trying to demo Python to skeptical faculty, I'd want 'em to 
see the interactive mode too (shell mode) -- and scintilla doesn't
do that.  When teaching Python to kids, I'd *certainly* introduce
them to Python in shell mode.

So my only point is it's not either/or:  fine to supplant IDLE as 
an editor, but you still need a shell of some kind to take full 
advantage of Python in interactive mode -- and an editor ain't 
a shell.

I may go to scintilla as an editor for awhile, but I'll have IDLE 
open in another window as my shell, as you say (so far I like it 
better than ActivePython's shell).

Kirby

 > Which of course is always available to you through IDLE, even with scintilla,   
 > etc. open and in use. 
 > 
 > Anyway, think you should see my point as to why I don't fully see what you  
 > are driving at. 
 > 
 > ART