[Tutor] Which Python Script Editor of Choice?

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On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Michael Langford
<mlangford.cs03 at gtalumni.org> wrote:
> Many people who go this way, program with or without one just fine. Those who start right away always using IDE's can just plain die when they hit an environment where they don't have one (due to time, money, location, or whatever).
>
> Btw, if people know of good IDE's other than PIDA that are free, run on windows and linux and allow use of VIM as the editor, please let me know.

I personally use VIM/vi as my editor. The best thing about using VIM
(at least when it comes to testing) is the ability to run command line
arguments from vim.

:!python hand_grenade.py

would run your script (assuming you started editing in whatever
directory). Auto complete (the use of <tab> works too. I've never used
an IDE aside from the MS Visual Studio for our CS I class - and I find
it to be horrible overkill, confusing, and less powerful than vim and
g++ from the command line under ubuntu.

I suppose my method isn't an IDE, but it works for me (and so far I
don't see any reason to change, if I need to edit multiple files at a
time I can :split windows, yada yada).

Find whatever suits you, and good luck in the hunt
-Wayne