Choosing a Python IDE. what is your Pythonish recommendation? I do
fpp
nntp.fpp at spamgourmet.com
Thu Jan 5 03:32:00 EST 2017
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Chris Clark <chris.p.clark at ba.com>
> wrote:
>> I want an IDE that I can use at work and home, linux and dare I say
>> windows.
>> Sublime, had to remove it from my work PC as it is not licensed.
>> Atom, loved it until it slowed down.
>> VIM, ok the best if you know vi inside out.
>> Any JAVA based IDE, just slows up on work PC's due to all the
>> background stuff that corporates insist they run.
>> Why can not someone more clever than I fork DrPython and bring it up
>> to date.
>> Its is fast, looks great and just does the job ?
I'm suprised no one in this rich thread has even mentioned SciTE :
http://www.scintilla.org/
Admittedly it's closer to an excellent code editor than a full-blown IDE. But
it's very lightweight and fast, cross-platform, has superb syntax coloring and
UTF8 handling, and is highly configurable through its configuration file(s) and
embedded LUA scripting. It's also well maintained : version 1.0 came out in
1999, and the latest (3.7.2) is just a week old...
Its IDE side consists mostly of hotkeys to run the interpreter or compiler for
the language you're editing, with the file in the current tab.
A side pane shows the output (prints, exceptions, errors etc.) of the running
script.
A nice touch is that it understands these error messages and makes them
clickable, taking you to the tab/module/line where the error occurred. Also, it
can save its current tabs (and their state) to a "session" file for later
reloading, which is close to the idea of a "project" in most IDEs.
Oh, and it had multi-selection and multi-editing before most of the new IDEs
out there :-)
Personally that's about all I need for my Python activities, but it can be
customized much further than I have done : there are "hooks" for other external
programs than compilers/interpreters, so you can also run a linter, debugger or
cvs from the editor.
One word of warning: unlike most newer IDEs which tend to be shiny-shiny and
ful of bells and whistles at first sight, out of the box SciTE is
*extremely* plain looking (you could even say drab, or ugly :-).
It is up to you to decide how it should look and what it should do or not,
through the configuration file. Fortunately the documentation is very thorough,
and there are a lot of examples lying around to be copy/pasted (like a dark
theme, LUA scripts etc.).
Did I mention it's lightweight ? The archive is about 1.5 MB and it just needs
unzipping, no installation. May be worth a look if you haven't tried it yet...
fp
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