[Tutor] What is a Python "project"?

[Mike Hansen]

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> [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Dick Moores
> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:41 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Tutor] What is a Python "project"?
> 
> At 10:01 AM 10/3/2006, Mike Hansen wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
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> > > [mailto:tutor-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Dick Moores
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:52 AM
> > > To: tutor at python.org
> > > Subject: [Tutor] What is a Python "project"?
> > >
> > > I tried out Wing IDE Personal
> > > (<http://wingware.com/wingide-personal>) off and on for 
> 30 days, and
> > > then, finding it easy to use (probably because it's designed for
> > > Python), decided to buy it. I'm happy with it, and very 
> pleased with
> > > the fast response from technical support available by email.
> > >
> > > I've never written anything in Python other than 
> single-file scripts.
> > > WingIDE has the ability to handle "projects", which apparently
> > > consist of files and "packages". But what is a project? 
> What does a
> > > project have that can't be put into a single .py file script?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Dick Moores
> > >
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> >When your apps start getting larger, you'll find that you want to put
> >common functions into modules that you can hopefully reuse for other
> >programs.
> 
> Yes, I already have done this. But in scripts I write I simply import 
> the functions I want from that module. I don't think in terms of 
> making a project. Maybe I've missed your point?
> 
> >http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html
> 
> Now, that page has a lot of stuff I didn't know. Thanks! Maybe I 
> should read the whole tutorial. I see that's it's been updated for 
> 2.5. And it's by GvR. http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html
> 
> >I've been doing some web programming, so my "projects" consist of
> >cheetah template files, CSS, config files, a handful of python
> >modules...
> 
> Why do you make python modules part of a project? They can be used 
> without copying them around, can't they? Or is it that by a project 
> is meant in part a list of pointers to all the files you mean for 
> that program to use, and you don't actually have to copy or move them 
> so they are all in the same folder/directory?
> 
> Thanks, Mike.
> 
> Dick
> 

I use Komodo and VIM. With Komodo, a project is just a collection of
related files. I'd imagine that WingIDE does something similar. You set
up a project and add files to them. It's just a way to keep organized.

As far as the python modules in my project, they are ones that I've
written not 3rd party stuff. If the day comes that I use my own modules
in more than one application/project, I'll probably move them to site
packages.

Mike