[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Mac newbie

[Kevin Walzer]

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|Let me conclude with a question: what *should* be in a newbie-friendly
|> Python IDE? If you were writing one, what would you like to see in it?


|>Well, that is a good point. I suppose everyone will have a differing
|>opinion on that, particularly in terms of goals. For me, I'd like to
|>see a single package, which includes a GUI designer, script editor
|>with colorizing, debugger, interactive console, some sort of module
|>browser for functions and syntax, resource viewer, something similar
|>to package manager... and a basic set of modules for x-plat
|>development work. Then, some tool which helps to output the whole
|>thing as a runtime package.

|>I realize that is asking a lot. I really do. I also think that there
|>is money to be made by the company or person who delivers something
|>like that... providing it is pretty tight and cohesive.

This sounds like "PyRev" to me. :-)

Seriously, Revolution is the only environment that I'm aware of that
provides all of this stuff in a cross-platform context. Packaging
solutions are usually platform specific (i.e. py2exe vs. py2app). Also,
which GUI toolkit would such an IDE use?

Komodo provides nearly all of the functionality you've described, even a
GUI builder--though it's Tk, which may or may not be to your taste. But
still, ActiveState has not yet seen fit to bring it to the Mac. I hereby
renew my suggestion to lobby them.


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Cheers,

Kevin Walzer, PhD
WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X
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