[SciPy-User] Python and Eclipse

[Nathaniel Polish]

Oh please.  Emacs is for real men.  We hack code in lisp in an emacs shell. 
I first used emacs in 1984.  I used it to read email and net news.  It was 
not just a text editor, it was a lifestyle.  But that has NOTHING to do 
with Python.  Though I bet you could build a great Python interpreter in 
emacs.

More to the point, I find that some languages/systems are much better 
learned and understood within a particular development environment.  I'll 
probably stick with emacs plus the python shell for the moment.  However, 
I'll probably tryout the eclipse offering.  I came across enthought.com 
(they seem to host this list).  It looks interesting.  Is it worthwhile as 
a distribution or just a way for commercial-types to get paid support?

If anyone wants to exchange emacs/vi flames with me that's fine, but its 
probably off-list material.

Nat

--On Sunday, January 09, 2011 7:13 PM -0700 Charles R Harris 
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 17:30 -0500, Nathaniel Polish wrote:
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>> I would never recommend it to anyone under the age of 40 since IDEs
>>  such as Eclipse are better in just about every way.
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> This is so arguable... Ok, let's not get started on that, at least it is
> now clear what did you have in mind when you were asking your question.
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> And I was so hoping for an emacs/vim flame war ;)
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> The combinations that I've seen people using for SciPy / Numpy:
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> 1) Aptana (= Eclipse + PyDev)
> 2) PyCharm (= IDEA + Python plugin, commercial)
> 3) Wingware IDE (commercial)
> 4) vim / emacs + Python shell
> 5) Eric, Spyder, other lightweight IDE's
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> I've seen folks on windows running Eclipse using the Python(x,y)
> distribution. It looked pretty cool. If I have to use windows I'll
> probably give it a shot.
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> All of them, can be, of course, complimented by ipython -pylab for quick
> experimentation. Specific choice is purely a matter of taste / what
> makes you personally most productive.
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>> I was looking for recommendations for development environments that are
>> considered by the community to be "modern".
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> Well, I personally use PyCharm. I guess I am a very modern guy. Not sure
> if it's a compliment though :-) It's paid-for, but if you have ever used
> any of the other JetBrains IDE's you can understand why one would want
> to pay for it.
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> Off to google the name. I don't end up using these IDE's but its fun to
> see what's out there. And maybe I'm just an old dog.
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> Chuck
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