Python application launcher (for Python code)

[Deborah Swanson]

I should also say that right now I'm using Windows XP, but hope very
soon to have Linux again. Ideally, this launcher would work in both.

I wrote, on February 20, 2017 7:44 AM
> 
> Ben Finney wrote, on February 19, 2017 11:27 PM
> > 
> > "Deborah Swanson" <python at deborahswanson.net> writes:
> > 
> > > I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if 
> this hasn't
> 
> > > already been done many times.
> > 
> > Can you describe what you are looking for, in enough detail
> > that we can know whether it's already been done as you want it?
> > 
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> > Ben Finney
> 
> I deliberately left the question open-ended because I'm 
> curious what's out there. I've studied and practiced Python 
> for a little over a year, but I've spent that time mostly 
> writing my own code and I don't really know much about what 
> and where to look for in modules and packages.
> 
> Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use 
> frequently, and as time goes on my collection and uses of it 
> will grow. Right now I just want a way to select which one 
> I'd like to run and run it. I'd like it to be a standalone 
> application and some sort of system of categories would be nice. 
> 
> I'm migrating tasks I've always done in Excel to Python, and 
> I have a sketchy idea of features I'd like to open Excel 
> with, but I hate Excel VBA so much that I haven't written an 
> on_Open macro for Excel yet. What I'd like to open with is 
> mostly a menu of macros I'd like to have available for any 
> code I'm running, possibly opening different environments for 
> different kinds of tasks, that sort of thing. I also plan to 
> use sqlite3 for permanent data storage, matplotlib for 
> charts, and tkinter for interfaces. That's all in the 
> planning stages, but one thing that seems like an obvious 
> need is a way to keep related code and its associated data, 
> charts, etc, easily accessible to each other, like they are 
> when they're all bundled together in an Excel workbook. I 
> have a few ideas about how to do that, but I'm also 
> interested in what other people have done.
> 
> I probably won't know exactly what I want until I have one 
> and use it for awhile. I've been keeping my code for daily 
> computing open in my IDE and using the IDE for a launcher, 
> but it's getting a little crowded, and I'd like to access 
> those bits separately from code I'm currently working on.
> 
> Deborah
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