constructive critisism on pythonwin IDE

Mark Hammond mhammond at skippinet.com.au
Wed Jun 5 18:59:51 EDT 2002


sameer wrote:
> First of all, let me start of by saying that Pythonwin is a great IDE.
>  Now for the constructive critisism.  The thing I hate about PythonWin
> is, that despite the fact that it's a development environment, there
> is a lot of caching done of modules, and the cached copy is not
> checked against a potentialy modified copy.  Whenever I change the
> contents of a file and try to run a module that depends on that file,
> I always end up with the old copy.  I have to then import and then
> reload the changed module in the interactive window for it to refresh.
>  It would greatly increase my productivity, if I can specify which
> modules can be cached.  I understand that there is a speed and
> development time issue, but I would like a little more fine grained
> control on how caching works on PythonWin, as the way it's currently
> implemented now is not acceptable.

All patches gratefully accepted.  Of course, if that is "not acceptable" 
I will cheerfully refund every cent you paid for it <wink>

Mark.




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