help a newbie with a IDE/book combination

[Ron Rogers Jr.]

On 9 Jul 2006 16:42:27 -0700
mamadu at islamabad.net wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I already have a couple of newbie books on Python itself, but
> would rather get started with a nice to use IDE and I am
> therefore looking for a good IDE to learn Python. 
> 
> Is there a good IDE which would be well documented out there?


Python comes with IDLE.  It should be in /usr/local/bin

If not try:

python2.4 /usr/local/lib/python2.4/idlelib/idle.py

I like idle as a beginner because it's easy for me to test out
my simple little learning scripts while in it. (though I figure
there's probably a way to do that from within vim or emacs)

As some suggested, as a beginner you don't need much of a super
powered IDE.  If I wasn't using IDLE, I'd be using vim or gvim.


CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.)