Python and IDEs

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info>:

> Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>> If you have ten Python apps, you'll have ten Python installations. 
>
> A horrible thought. Hard drives are cheap, but not that cheap

Well, iPhones aren't *that* expensive...

>> Also the applications have no way to communicate outside their
>> respective sandboxes. They can't access each others' files, for
>> example.
>
> If two applications can both write to the file system,

They can't. They are sandboxed.

My WP8 phone has Python3 installed. Absolutely useless since it can't
get out of its sandbox (except for Microsoft's cloud drive, I think).


Marko