Python application launcher (for Python code)
Deborah Swanson
python at deborahswanson.net
Mon Feb 20 11:05:04 EST 2017
I should also say that right now I'm using Windows XP, but hope very
soon to have Linux again. Ideally, this launcher would work in both.
I wrote, on February 20, 2017 7:44 AM
>
> Ben Finney wrote, on February 19, 2017 11:27 PM
> >
> > "Deborah Swanson" <python at deborahswanson.net> writes:
> >
> > > I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if
> this hasn't
>
> > > already been done many times.
> >
> > Can you describe what you are looking for, in enough detail
> > that we can know whether it's already been done as you want it?
> >
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> > Ben Finney
>
> I deliberately left the question open-ended because I'm
> curious what's out there. I've studied and practiced Python
> for a little over a year, but I've spent that time mostly
> writing my own code and I don't really know much about what
> and where to look for in modules and packages.
>
> Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use
> frequently, and as time goes on my collection and uses of it
> will grow. Right now I just want a way to select which one
> I'd like to run and run it. I'd like it to be a standalone
> application and some sort of system of categories would be nice.
>
> I'm migrating tasks I've always done in Excel to Python, and
> I have a sketchy idea of features I'd like to open Excel
> with, but I hate Excel VBA so much that I haven't written an
> on_Open macro for Excel yet. What I'd like to open with is
> mostly a menu of macros I'd like to have available for any
> code I'm running, possibly opening different environments for
> different kinds of tasks, that sort of thing. I also plan to
> use sqlite3 for permanent data storage, matplotlib for
> charts, and tkinter for interfaces. That's all in the
> planning stages, but one thing that seems like an obvious
> need is a way to keep related code and its associated data,
> charts, etc, easily accessible to each other, like they are
> when they're all bundled together in an Excel workbook. I
> have a few ideas about how to do that, but I'm also
> interested in what other people have done.
>
> I probably won't know exactly what I want until I have one
> and use it for awhile. I've been keeping my code for daily
> computing open in my IDE and using the IDE for a launcher,
> but it's getting a little crowded, and I'd like to access
> those bits separately from code I'm currently working on.
>
> Deborah
>
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