Looking for a good Python environment

Simon Pickles sipickles at hotmail.com
Sat Nov 10 11:25:11 EST 2007


Well,

I am recent Windows escapee, and was dismayed by lack of Pyscripter for 
Linux.

Hold on... there is hope!

Pyscripter works great using WINE. search  
http://groups.google.com/group/PyScripter?hl=en for "Linux"

Enjoy!

Paul Rudin wrote:
> jwelby <julius.welby at gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>   
>> This is a fair question. I didn't phrase my post too well.
>>
>> I find PyScripter does pretty much everything I need in terms of doing
>> actual development for Python. My use of 'lightweight' is by no means
>> a criticism of PyScripter - it's more of a compliment, as it refers to
>> the relatively modest demands that it makes on my system compared with
>> Eclipse, which can be hog.
>>
>> The main reason I have used Eclipse for larger, team based, projects
>> is for the source control plug-ins. Eclipse has plug-in support for
>> cvs and svn. PyScripter may have this too - perhaps I've missed it.
>> (I'm away from my Windows box at the moment, otherwise I would check).
>> Of course, there are other ways to implement source control without it
>> needing to be integrated in the IDE, so even this need not put off
>> anyone who wants to use PyScripter with source control.
>>
>> Summary - unless you need the added flexibility offered by Eclipse
>> plug-ins, PyScripter is a great tool for developing with Python on
>> Windows.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure if you count emacs as "lightweight" but it's certainly
> less resource hungry than eclipse/pydev, and does have integrated
> cvs/svn functionality.
>   






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