[Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

[Stephen P. Molnar]

On 06/04/2017 04:44 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:
> Wing. Wing IDE personal works awesome for me
>
> Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer,
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> On 3 Jun 2017 02:59, "C W" <tmrsg11 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Python list,
>>
>> I am an R user learning Python. What is a good editor?
>>
>> 1) Pycharm
>> PyCharm evaluates the entire script, I just want to change a few lines in
>> the script.
>> For example,
>>
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>> import numpy as np
>>
>> x = np.arange(0, 1,0.1)
>> y = np.sin(2 * np.pi * x)
>>
>> plt.figure(1)
>> plt.clf()
>> plt.plot(x, y)
>> plt.show()
>>
>> Now, I want to do a scatter plot, but don't want to generate the data
>> again. I just want the "line by line" evaluation like in R and Matlab.
>> Basically, you can type in console and add to the existing variables.
>>
>> 2) Spyder
>> Spyder looks a lot like RStudio, I like it! But, it does not have an app
>> icon in applications.  I am baffled. I do ~/anaconda/bin/spyder every time.
>>
>> Am I missing something or is this the way it is?
>>
>> Thank you very much!
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Here's how I start Spyder, in Xfce:

/home/comp/Apps/anaconda3/bin/spyder

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