[Python-ideas] Python 3000 TIOBE -3%

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <
massimo.dipierro at gmail.com> wrote:

> First of all all the Python developers are doing an amazing job, and none
> of the comments should be taken as a critique but only as a suggestion.
>
> On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> [...]
>
>  In the meantime, if the python.org packages for Windows aren't up to
>> scratch (and they aren't in many ways), *use the commercially backed
>> ones* (or one of the other sumo distributions that are out there).
>> Don't tell your students to grab the raw installers directly from
>> python.org, redirect them to the free rebuilds from ActiveState or
>> Enthought, or go all out and get them to install something like
>> Python(X, Y).
>>
>
> This is what I do now. I tell my students if they have trouble to
> Enthought. Yet there are issues with license and 32 (free) vs 64 bits (not
> free). Long term I do not think this what we should encourage.
>
>

Concerning the eclipse and the plugin thing - "Aptana" is a nice bundle of
pydev with eclipse so it's just one download and you get a nice python IDE
with autocompletion etc.

Yuval
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