[Pythonmac-SIG] Adding Apps - Pycrust too?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 25, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:

>
> 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.)

This is incorrect.  IDLE should work just fine with wxPython, it runs  
code in a subprocess.  PyCrust on the other hand probably does have  
problems, though.

-bob