psss...I want to move from Perl to Python

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 1/29/2016 3:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Fillmore <fillmore_remove at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>
>
>>> - Is there a good IDE that can be used for debugging? all free IDEs for
>>> Perl
>>> suck and it would be awesome if Python was better than that.
>>>
>>
>> Debugging Python code is generally easy enough without an IDE; any
>> time something goes wrong, you get an exception with a very pretty
>> traceback. That's usually enough on its own. A little bit of editor
>> integration can help you jump to the lines mentioned, in the same way
>> that you might get that with C compiler errors; that's all I've ever
>> needed.
>
>
> When one runs code from an IDLE editor, output and exceptions go to the IDLE
> Shell.  Right click on a traceback line and select 'Go to file/line' and
> IDLE will display the file in an IDLE editor (opening it if necessary) and
> put the cursor on the proper line.  (It does the same with grep output.)

Yep. Same happens if you run the file from SciTE, and probably a lot
of other editors too. I don't call them "IDEs" because of that one
feature, but honestly, I don't need anything more of an IDE.

ChrisA