[Tutor] Mac IDE

[Tom Tucker]

Another IDE to consider that supports the MAC OS is PyCharm from JetBrains.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Wayne Werner <waynejwerner at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:50 AM, Walter Prins <wprins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 29 September 2011 10:42, Robert Johansson <
>> robert.johansson at math.umu.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> I know that there is a lot to read about different IDEs on the net but I
>>> have tried a couple and I’m still not pleased. My demands are not that high,
>>> when I’m under Windows I’m happy with IDLE (an interactive shell and debug)
>>> but the problem is with Mac (Python >= 2.7 and OS 10.7). IDLE had serious
>>> problems and TextWrangler had no interactive shell. There’s a lot of other
>>> stuff to try and I would be grateful if someone could spare me some time on
>>> this. ****
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Well, if you're prepared to spend a bit of money, I've heard very good
>> things about Wingware, which is also available on Mac  (Note, not a user
>> myself currently, but has seen it before and been favourably impressed,
>> enough to suggest it here despite not currently actively using it myself.)
>> Link: http://wingware.com/
>
>
> I'll second that. If you're really into IDEs, Wingware is a great one -
> they also have a student/open source license that may be right up your
> alley.
>
> My personal favorite?
>
> Two terminal windows - one with Vim, editing my Python scripts, and another
> with an interactive interpreter. Since you can map keys in Vim, I have <F5>
> mapped to save and run current file. If you're in the habit of editing
> multiple files you could set it up to map <F5> to ask which file you want to
> set as your main .py file. And since you mentioned debug, I usually just use
> pdb if I need debugging. You could easily map a key such as <F9> to insert a
> new line and type 'pdb.set_trace()'. Vim has a fairly steep learning curve,
> but if you spend 30 minutes with the vimtutor you'll be fine. With newer
> versions of Vim you can also write plugins for them in Python.
>
> Of course these capabilities (and many many more) are available with Emacs.
>
> I personally recommend that you learn one (or both) of these editors. They
> will highly improve the speed at which you are able to edit your code.
>
> HTH,
> Wayne
>
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