From: Alf P. Steinbach /Usenet on
* Dani Valverde, on 09.07.2010 18:31:
> Hello!
> I am new to python and pretty new to programming (I have some expertise
> wit R statistical programming language). I am just starting, so my
> questions may be a little bit stupid. Can anyone suggest a good editor
> for python?
> Cheers!

If you're working in Windows the Notepad++ and PSPad and old Crimson Editor (all
free) all work nicely and are reasonably light-weight.


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

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From: Grant Edwards on
On 2010-07-09, Dani Valverde <dani.valverde(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> I am new to python and pretty new to programming (I have some
> expertise wit R statistical programming language). I am just
> starting, so my questions may be a little bit stupid. Can anyone
> suggest a good editor for python?

Emacs, Scite (has nice folding), Vim, Eclipse.

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From: Rhodri James on
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:31:36 +0100, Dani Valverde
<dani.valverde(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> I am new to python and pretty new to programming (I have some expertise
> wit R statistical programming language). I am just starting, so my
> questions may be a little bit stupid. Can anyone suggest a good editor
> for python?

Whatever you feel most comfortable with. Idle comes packaged with Python,
but can be a bit limited. If you can stand the learning curve (and a lot
of people can't, it seems), Emacs and Vim are highly configurable and
offer a lot of language-specific convenience functions. Basically, try a
few different editors out and see what style you like.

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From: Nick Raptis on
Hello Dani!

IDLE is very friendly for new users and has got me a long way when I was
starting. You also can't beat that it comes bundled with Python.

I'd also like to suggest the Python-Tutor list
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor for your "new-user" questions.
Lots of helpful folk there, myself included.

Nick

On 07/09/2010 07:31 PM, Dani Valverde wrote:
> Hello!
> I am new to python and pretty new to programming (I have some
> expertise wit R statistical programming language). I am just starting,
> so my questions may be a little bit stupid. Can anyone suggest a good
> editor for python?
> Cheers!
>
> Dani
>
From: Jean-Michel Pichavant on
Dani Valverde wrote:
> Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am using Linux. In fact, my first
> test have been with gedit. Is there any way to directly run the Python
> code into the console?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Dani
>
> Bradley Hintze wrote:
>> There are lots of great editors out there. It really depends on
>> personal preference. It also depends on your OS. I us Mac OSX and like
>> jEdit (my lab mate likes bbEdit). When I was on windows I liked
>> notepad2. On linux i really like gEdit. Any of these will work great
>> for a beginner!
>>
>> Bradley
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Dani Valverde
>> <dani.valverde(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>> I am new to python and pretty new to programming (I have some
>>> expertise wit
>>> R statistical programming language). I am just starting, so my
>>> questions may
>>> be a little bit stupid. Can anyone suggest a good editor for python?
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> Dani
>
Welcome Dani,

Please do not top post.
vim & emacs are the most featured text editors, they are suitable for
any language.

If you want something more oriented towards python, have a try with
"eric", that's the IDE name. The name's sucks a lot but I discovered it
recently from an annoucement in this list, and I found it pretty
impressive. Integrated shell, debugger, linter, refactoring plugin, UI
designers etc...

JM