A python IDE for teaching that supports cyrillic i/o

[Alan Franzoni]

Kirill Simonov  si è divertito a scrivere:

> Unfortunately, most IDEs I tried failed miserably in this respect.  My
> test was simple: I've run the code
>     name = raw_input("What's your name? ")  # written in Russian
>     print "Hello, %s!" % name               # in Russian as well
> both from the shell and as a standalone script. This either caused a
> UnicodeError or just printed invalid characters.

I highly dislike asking stupid questions, and this might be stupid
indeed... but did you write

# -*- coding: iso-8859-5 -*-

or

# -*- coding: koi8_r -*-

(they both seem suited to the Russian language, but I don't know the
difference)

as the first line in your .py file?

Personally, I use Eclipse+Pydev (a bit steep to learn at the beginning, and
quite memory and cpu hogging since it's a java-based ide; don't use it on
old/slow computers with less than 512MB RAM, and don't use version < 3.2
either) and it uses that very line to recognize the actual character set
employed. You may check with other encodings as well.

http://docs.python.org/lib/standard-encodings.html

It does work on Windows indeed.

UPDATE:
I tried with Eclipse+Pydev, and using koi8_r I seems to be able to simply
copy&paste a piece of the ixbt.com homepage in the editor I can save and
use it correctly.


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