When should I use "development mode"?

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 1:38 PM, py_lrnr <henryalphabet at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone (very briefly) explain to me, in a sentence or two:
>
> what 'development mode' is?
> how 'development mode' differs from other 'modes'?
> why/when I would use 'development mode'?
> what 'development mode' does or does not allow me to do?

Instead of installing the package into your site-packages, it installs
a link back to the source folder.  This lets you make changes to the
code in the source folder which are immediately visible to Python
without having to install the package again.