IDE for python
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wxjmfauth at gmail.com
Wed May 28 11:38:51 EDT 2014
Le mercredi 28 mai 2014 14:55:35 UTC+2, Chris Angelico a écrit :
> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Greg Schroeder <gmschroeder at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > Please suggest, if we have any free ide for python development.
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> >
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> > Anything that writes text is fine.
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> > I recommend the standard text editor for your OS (Notepad if you use
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> > Windows, Textedit on Mac, whatever is on your GNU/Linux distro by
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> > default) unless you know exactly what you don't like about it.
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> No. Don't use Notepad for anything! It's easy enough to get a better
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> editor. Among its other faults, Notepad:
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>
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> 1) Has problems with LF line endings (they vanish, and you have hugely
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> long lines)
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> 2) Puts three junk bytes onto the beginning of a file that it
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> considers saved as UTF-8
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> 3) Doesn't understand coding cookies, and will happily save something
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> in a different encoding like CP-1252 (which it calls "ANSI")
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> 4) Guesses encodings on load, giving rise to the famous "Bush hid the
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> facts" trick - although this is unlikely to be a problem with
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> something of decent size
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> 5) Has issues with large files - or at least, it did last time I
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> tried; this may no longer be true with Windows 7/8
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> Default text editors on the Linux distros I've used have been far
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> better, but still less than ideal. With Debian Squeeze, I got a gedit
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> that bugged me in several ways, which is what pushed me onto SciTE.
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> You can certainly start coding with gedit, though. The issues that I
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> had with it were relating to heavy-duty usage that I do, where I'm
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> basically spending an entire day delving into code and moving stuff
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> around. These days, though, I'd rather have one editor on both the
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> platforms I use (Windows and Linux, each in multiple variants), as it
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> allows me to share configs and comfortable keystrokes. There are
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> plenty of cross-platform editors to choose from.
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> So, I agree with your analysis, as regards gedit ("know exactly what
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> you don't like about it"). If it doesn't bug you, use it. But if
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> Notepad doesn't bug you, *still don't use it*, because it's like
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> driving a car that isn't structurally sound. It might not be you that
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> gets hurt by it... or it might not be for quite a while that you see
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> the problems... but the pain will happen.
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>
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> ChrisA
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Amen.
Ite missa est.
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