[Tutor] Looking for ConfigObj Documentation

[Marc Tompkins]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Wayne Watson <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net
> wrote:


> I'm willing to give vim a shot. I believe in an earlier thread unrelated to
> this, Alan suggested it. I'm perhaps incorrectly assuming vim will take care
> of the Tkinter problem. If these editors aren't really the source of some
> the error reporting problem, then I'm going to have to come up with new
> thinking or some tactic that will get to the real errors. If there is an
> influence of the editors, then I would think it has something to do with the
> interface to Python, so it comes down to which editor has the best or most
> stable interface with Python.  When Alan suggested it, there was something
> about the apparent awkwardness of executing the code, which made me pass on
> it. I'm going back to find out what that was.
>

The problem is not with IDLE as an editor, but with IDLE as a shell.
You can edit your code in any editor, and as long as it doesn't slip funky
hidden characters into your file (not an issue with any normal text editor
AFAIK, but you definitely don't want to use Word!) it will make NO
difference to your code.  The problem with IDLE is that it tries to be an
IDE (Integrated Development Environment - in other words, you can edit the
code, execute it, debug it, get rudimentary language help all in one
program) and it does a p#$$-poor job of it.  Alan's advice is to avoid the
IDE approach and get used to editing your program in one window and running
it in another - after all, that's how your users will see it.  And it's good
advice and a valid approach.  Myself, I like using an IDE - the one thing I
used to like about using Visual Studio was the integration.  So I use SPE,
which is an IDE and (IMHO) a good one.  It does not matter in the slightest
which tool you use, as long as that tool does not get in your way.

(Actually, I may be misrepresenting Alan and Vim a bit - I don't use it
myself.  You can run external programs from inside of vim, so Alan's desktop
may look more like a traditional IDE than I'm imagining.)
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