Which IDE ?

[Jonas Bengtsson]

Have you tried Komodo? I think it is pretty great! Has code
completions and all other nifty features! Try it out!

/Jonas


VanPopering <dvanpope at bookworm.suffolk.lib.ny.us> wrote in message news:<dHvX6.10207$DW1.418937 at iad-read.news.verio.net>...
> Which IDE would you recommend for someone *just starting out* with Python?
> 
> -I'm not a professional programmer but Im interested in learning Python
> -I want to use opensource whenever possible
> -For now I'm just here for the basics; some scripting etc.
> 
> I'd LOVE to use idle since its part of it and free, but I have heard that it freezes upand 
> has other problems...is this really a problem that it happens a lot? Are there things I can 
> do to avoid this - does it happen with larger more complex programs only? If it froze while 
> running the script and that was the only potential problem, then I'd just save it first...
> 
> 	I am wondering if these were copmplaints by professional programmers who 	
> needed and expected more...
> 
> Komodo looks interesting, but I do admit it looks like a bit much for my purposes:
> I  want to write, edit, debug, and run simple python thingys
> 
> I hope I misunderstood what I had heard about Idle's short comings - 
> 
> 	*I dont know yet and thats why Im asking*
> 
> (I wonder what Guido uses...)
> 
> 
> -David
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> David van Popering
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