How do you program in Python?

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 17:35:16 +0100, anthonyberet <nospam at me.invalid> wrote:
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> What I would really like is something like an old-style BASIC 
> interpreter, in which I could list, modify and test-run sections of 

I use no IDE, just emacs for editing my sources, and a terminal window or
two. And CVS for version control.

Often I run Python interactively to try out small "one-liners". For example,
I don't try to remember the slicing syntax, or what 'list("foo")' means, or
if range(0) is legal, etc -- I just try it out interactively.

If I get stuck or if the problem is non-trivial, or if I'm writing a
standalone module, I use module unittest so I have something easily runnable
at all times. This unittest code doesn't even have to be true unit tests --
it can be any speculative code I want, driven by the unittest framework.

Between these two (interactive tinkering and unittest-based code) I feel
little need for IDEs or 'environments for experimentation'.

Others will feel differently, of course.

/Jorgen

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