FW: Good IDE for Python

[Grégoire Dooms]

Hi,

You need the 'patch' program to apply a patch, the 'diff' program to 
produce one.
If you are under windows you should get cygwin at http://www.cygwin.com/
though you could maybe get a standalone diff and patch program for windows.

I've set-up an archive of the patched files in the Lib/idlelib directory 
for you to download the files affected by the patch:
get it at http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~dooms/idle-syntax-patched-files.zip
just unzip and copy the files in your idlelib dir.

HTH
--
Grégoire Dooms


Fuzzyman wrote:
> "Fred Allen" <fallen at leveltwo.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.949.1087233495.6949.python-list at python.org>...
> 
>>Dear Michael,
>>
>>I've searched fruitlessly for your recommended IDLE patch's download 
>>point. While I am probably only slightly slower than the average python 
>>programmer, I expect that others, no less witless than I, have had 
>>similar experience. Would you please post either explicit instructions 
>>by which I (we) can find the download. With thanks in advance, I am,
>>
>>Gratefully,
>>
>>Fred Allen
>>
> 
> 
> Hello Fred,
> 
> In actual fact I replied to Gregoire (?) asking how to *apply* the
> patch (I did succeed in downloading it though !)... it's not actually
> my patch. Whilst I've managed to download the patch I haven't a clue
> what to do with it... and I was hoping Greg would let me know.....
> 
> If you go to :
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=906702&group_id=5470&atid=305470
> 
> Right at the bottom there is a heading saying 'Attached Files'. Below
> this it says :
>  syntaxdiffs Diffs agains CVS in 29.02.04 Download 
> 
> Needless to say the download link.. is the download one. The actual
> link is :
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=5470&atid=305470&file_id=78388&aid=906702
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Fuzzy
> 
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Fuzzyman [mailto:michael at foord.net] 
>>Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 8:35 AM
>>To: python-list at python.org
>>Subject: Re: Good IDE for Python
>>
>>Gr goire Dooms <dooms at info.LESS.ucl.SPAM.ac.be> wrote in message 
>>news:<40cc1b05$0$41764$5fc3050 at dreader2.news.tiscali.nl>...
>>
>>>Kamilche wrote:
>>>
>>>>I love Python, but I'm less than in love with IDLE. It's OK, but it
>>>>really doesn't have enough capabilities.
>>>>
>>>>What I consider critical, are a popdown listing of all my functions,
>>>>colored syntax printing, and a right-click 'definition' context menu
>>>>that will hop you to the spot where that keyword is defined, if
>>>>possible. Everything else I could learn to do without, but these
>>>>features keep me hoping for a better IDE for Python.
>>>>
>>>>I'm used to the Microsoft Visual C++ debugger, and though tooltip
>>>>variable debugging and intellisense were nice, they broke often 
>>
>> enough
>>
>>>>that you couldn't rely on them anyway, so I don't really need those
>>>>features.
>>>>
>>>>I would also like the ability to create application 'forms' 
>>
>> visually.
>>
>>>>I'm on a Windows XP machine.
>>>>
>>>>Any suggestions on what I should install next?
>>>
>>>This patch to IDLE improves it a bit:
>>>
>>
>>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=906702&group
>> id=5470&atid=305470
>>
>>>It adds among other things the pop-down function list.
>>>It's a little cumbersome to apply but the result is quite good.
>>>I've been using it for a few days and I'm quite happy with it.
>>>I may provide a patch against python 2.3.3 or another version if 
>>
>> someone 
>>
>>>is interrested.
>>>
>>>If you are interresed, I made a smaller patch adding the qualified 
>>
>> name 
>>
>>>autocompletion (module.<Alt-/>functions). But the former patch does it 
>>
>> 
>>
>>>better (it even supports filename autocompletion).
>>
>>This looks *very* interesting.
>>How do you apply a patch like this ?
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Fuzzy
>>http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html