Overwhelmed by the Simplicity of Python. Any Recommendation?

[Thomas Jollans]

On 07/11/2018 21:31, MRAB wrote:
> On 2018-11-07 09:20, Thomas Jollans wrote:
>> On 06/11/2018 22:51, Lie Ryan wrote:
>>>> I like to step through my code line by line,
>>>> it's impossible to do it with
>>>> object-oriented programming language.
>>>
>>> I suggest pudb, it's a curses based debugger, which is nicer than
>>> pdb, but doesn't require tedious IDE setup.
>>
>> I'll just take this opportunity to point out (for those that don't know)
>> that Visual Studio Code (an open source cross-platform programmer's text
>> editor of the same calibre as Sublime or Atom, not an IDE) has great
>> support for (graphical) debugging of Python code. Not tedious to set up,
>> particularly. Obviously there are plugins for other editors, but they're
>> usually not this well-integrated.
>>
> I find that the code does run more slowly, though.

Can't argue with that.

I'm not totally sold on vscode, either. But I enjoy the debugger!


> 
>>>
>>>> Also, there's no good REPL IDE. 
>>>
>>> Not quite sure what you meant by REPL IDE, but did you try IPython
>>>
>>
>> If you find yourself wanting a debugger in an IPython/Jupyter notebook,
>> ipdb is pretty nice.
>>