Python Editors
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| - | Until I can get around to reviewing all the available editors and IDEs and you just want to get started, you may already have everything you need already on your system | + | Until I can get around to reviewing all the available editors and IDEs and you just want to get started, you may already have everything you need already on your system. All you need to get started on even the most basic systems is a Python interpreter and a text editor. If you want something a bit more graphical most text editors for the Gnome and KDE desktop environments will serve quite well and will probably even have some advanced editing features like code highlighting. With most of these types of editors you will need to save your work and actually run the code manually in a shell. It isn't fancy but should do quite well for a beginning step until you start knowing what kind of advanced features you would want to have. In fact because Python is an interpreted language you can run much of you code directly at a command prompt and can learn quite a bit without any external text editor. |
| - | If you want something | + | If you want something designed specifically to be used with Python Idle is an excellent choice. You may even already have it on your system as well. DrPython is also a lightweight tool good for beginners. Either will allow you to run your code from the editor without having to use an external terminal as you would need to do with a basic text editor. |
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| - | For those who can't wait please visit [http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors | + | For those who can't wait please visit The Python Programming Language Official Website for an overview of [http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors editors] and [http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments IDEs.] |
Revision as of 20:23, 15 July 2007
This is currently a work in progress and should be of minimum standard very soon. I'll keep adding to it as my own experience and time allow --Miasma 15:46, 11 July 2007 (EDT)
Until I can get around to reviewing all the available editors and IDEs and you just want to get started, you may already have everything you need already on your system. All you need to get started on even the most basic systems is a Python interpreter and a text editor. If you want something a bit more graphical most text editors for the Gnome and KDE desktop environments will serve quite well and will probably even have some advanced editing features like code highlighting. With most of these types of editors you will need to save your work and actually run the code manually in a shell. It isn't fancy but should do quite well for a beginning step until you start knowing what kind of advanced features you would want to have. In fact because Python is an interpreted language you can run much of you code directly at a command prompt and can learn quite a bit without any external text editor.
If you want something designed specifically to be used with Python Idle is an excellent choice. You may even already have it on your system as well. DrPython is also a lightweight tool good for beginners. Either will allow you to run your code from the editor without having to use an external terminal as you would need to do with a basic text editor.
For those who can't wait please visit The Python Programming Language Official Website for an overview of editors and IDEs.
