[Pythonmac-SIG] Adding Apps - Pycrust too?

[Charles Hartman]

On Apr 25, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Brendan Simons wrote:

> While you're (re)considering adding Build Applet.app
> to the distribution, can I suggest another useful app?
>
> PyCrust is a great little interactive Python shell
> that adds introspection and code completion.  It's
> written in wx.python and comes packaged in a .app
> bundle with a nice icon :)  You can get a
> (pre-release) copy of the universal binary version
> here:
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPython2.6-osx-docs- 
> demos-2.6.3.2rc1-universal10.4-py2.4.dmg
>
> The source code is managed as part of wx.python, but
> this app in particular is pretty stable, and is useful
> outside of wx. (imho)
>
> It would be a lot nicer to send newbies to pycrust
> then to the command line for their first look at
> Python.

As representative perpetual ignoramus & honorary newbie, I agree. I  
never much noticed PyCrust until "wxPython in Action" brought it to  
my attention, but I think it's great. For me, this is the replacement  
for the late unlamented PythonIDE. And -- if I understand rightly --  
because it doesn't have IDLE's Tkinter underpinnings it doesn't make  
writing GUI code with wxPython difficult. (I suppose its wxPython  
underpinnings could make it difficult to write Tkinter code.)

Charles Hartman