[Tutor] IDEs

[Josep M. Fontana]

Great. Thanks Marc, Steven and Alan for the enlightening answers. I
will certainly take your advice into account.

I work in many different computers and while I do most of my coding
(sounds as if I did a lot of coding, but I don't) on my desktop
computer at home I wanted to start doing it on my laptop and on
another old and way less powerful desktop computer at work. I think
I'll keep Eclipse on my main computer (there's a learning curve,
definitely, but I think it is a good time investment) but I'll use a
setup like the one Steve (and most seasoned programmers I know)
suggests for the other computers.

One question for Steve (or for whoever wants to answer): you say you
have a terminal with two tabs (neat, I wonder whether I can get these
terminals in OS X) and when you need to do debugging you turn to your
interactive python terminal and do;

import filename  # first time only
reload(filename)  # all subsequent times

If I do with a "normal" python file, I get the error:

"ImportError: No module named py"

if I enter the file name with the py extension. If I just enter the
file name without the extension, everything seems to work fine and I
don't get any error message but then when I call a variable I get a
message saying "'X' is not defined".

Josep M.