Using python for _large_ projects like IDE

[DilbertFan]

If you do write this  IDE, please include a compiler warning that catches
the missing () at the end of a function that doesn't have arguments.  I've
sunk into a dark world of a diabolically mind-destroying hysteria while
trying to troubleshoot some scripts, and then realizing that a python
function was not executing because I was calling it without '()'.  But
Python doesn't complain, or give you a message or anything,... it simply
doesn't execute that function!

Big reason I forget the empty parenthesis: I do Delphi also, and it doesn't
require it.

(Meanwhile, for Python I'm using Komodo, which is really good.  Funny how I
keep upgrading UltraEdit when I go ahead and register more language-specific
tools anyway )

"Sridhar R" <sridharinfinity at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:930ba99a.0401180625.5863acd4 at posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am a little experienced python programmer (2 months).  I am somewhat
> experienced in C/C++.  I am planning (now in design stage) to write an
> IDE in python.  The IDE will not be a simple one.  I had an idea of
> writing the IDE in C/C++, as it is a big project, bcoz of the
> following
>
> 1. if python is used, then the memory required for running the IDE
> will be high.
> 2. if pure python is used, the IDE will be slower.
>
> I'm not sure whether they are true.
>
> Then I thought of using python for 90% of the code and using C for
> other performance critical part.  But the problem is in identifying
> the performance critical code.  People suggest to start with pure
> python and then _recode_ the performance critical code after profiling
> the original code.  But I fear whether there will be a conflit in say
> data structures.  Not yet expert in extending/embedding python.
> Are there any ways to forsee the performance critical parts?
>
> Also, any suggestions on reducing memory usage of big applications
> written in python?