New python user seeks comments

Moshe Zadka moshez at math.huji.ac.il
Wed Apr 21 15:32:58 EDT 1999


On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Stefan Franke wrote:

> On 21 Apr 1999 00:33:10 -0400, David Steuber <trashcan at david-steuber.com> wrote:
> 
> >Er, uh, hmm.
> >
> >I wrote my first Python program today.  It took longer than I
> >expected.  Who would have guessed that you couldn't give a file object 
> >the name 'in'?Or at least that was one of the weirder obstacles.
> 
> Maybe a reserved keyword-aware editor could have saved you 
> from this? You could try IDLE, which comes with the lastest Python 
> distribution or PythonWin, if you are using Windows.
> There's a very clever Python Emacs mode as well...

Just my 0.02$: Recent versions of vim are also Python syntax aware.

And, though its name is misleading, the ``cheatsheet'' is wonderful:
lists of reserved words, etc.
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Moshe Zadka <mzadka at geocities.com>. 
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