[Tutor] Best IDE for Python

[Hieu Hoang]

Hi all,

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
  [snip]
> > Is there a good  IDE  where in I type the name of
> > the class object and then dot  then all the attributes
> > of the object are displayed so on.
>
> There are several that do this but many are OS specific.
> The PythonWin IDE that comes as standard in the winall
> package or the ActiveState version of Pytthon can do this.
>
> I'm prettty sure Blackadder, Wing and Eclipse will do it too.

 I can add Geany, SPE, and after reading Senthil's remark on gVim c-x
c-n, Pida. Geany works on top of PyGTK, SPE on wxPython, pida need
kiwi which requires pygtk also.

> > I tried to  install IDLE but I have no idea how to install tkinter?
>
> Tkinter is usually built in to Python. If you are compiling
> from source (on Linux?) You need to configure the makefile
> to include it, but most pre-built packages will have it.

 On self-compiled python, I just need to have tcl-dev and tk-dev
packages installed (ubuntu linux), and the configure script does the
proper work. I have only tried the epydoc gui.

> > Any help that enables me to use good IDE as soon
> > as possible is appreciated
>
> Personally I just use vim and an interpreter prompt! :-)

Me too, just that pida bundles them in one window.

Hieu