[Tutor] Python on Ubuntu 10.10?

[Timo]

On 15-01-11 02:17, Joel Knoll wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am new to programming and to Python.  I've been using Python with 
> IDLE on Windows Vista for a few weeks now.
> (And I'm loving it!)  However, I'm thinking about switching to Ubuntu 
> 10.10.  If I download Ubuntu, will I still be able to use the
> IDLE environment?  I am really quite fond of it (mostly because it's 
> what I know!).  To use Python in Ubuntu,
> will I have to do any additional downloading, or do Python and IDLE 
> come built in and ready to use?
>
You should try the default text editor that comes with Ubuntu, called 
Gedit. You can tweak it very nicely so it shows linenumbers and so on. 
There are also very useful plugins. It is all I ever use and when I need 
to write some code in Windows, it bugs me how bad IDLE really is.

Cheers,
Timo

> Thanks for your time,
>
> JC Knoll
>
>
>
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