[Tutor] idle??

[Chris Warrick]

On 13 January 2016 at 21:49, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 09/01/2016 10:38, Chris Warrick wrote:
>>
>> On 8 January 2016 at 20:07, bruce <badouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, where does IDLE fit into this....
>>
>>
>> IDLE is a sad little “IDE”, which is really ugly, because it’s written
>> in Tk. It lacks many IDE features. It comes with a really basic
>> debugger (that doesn’t even highlight the line that is being currently
>> executed…), function signature hinting, and some code completion.
>>
>
> Please ignore this drivel, he's spouted this before without giving any
> justification.  IDLE is perfectly adequate as a starter for Python.

I’m sorry, which part of “ugly” (which you cannot deny, it doesn’t
match the OS most of the time), “no debugger line highlighting”, “no
line numbering” (which is a crucial feature of any code editor!) is
not enough “justification”?

For learning, a text editor (that’s better than notepad.exe) is
enough. However, the OP explicitly asked for an IDE, and as such, they
should get a good one.

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