IDLE--what are your experiences with it?

**Gabriel Cooper** · Jul 18 '05, 04:50 PM

Re: IDLE--what are your experiences with it?

Kevin Walzer wrote:
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> I'm looking for other peoples' viewpoints about their experiences with
> IDLE as an editor--what are its good points? What are its limitations?
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When I was in windows I used Idle more often, it was just as easy to
pull up idle as it was a command line. However even then I ended up
using command line python more often than Idle since I was running my
own apps from the command line. Now that I'm on linux I never use Idle.
And either way, I only ever used the command line interpreter (or Idle)
to verify syntax before putting it into my code.

e.g.

"Hm... I don't recall... is the four-year date in datetime %Y or %y?"

So I'll pull up python, get my answer, close python, continue on in my
"real" editor.

Gabriel.

**Ivo Woltring** · Jul 18 '05, 04:50 PM

Re: IDLE--what are your experiences with it?

Under windows I don't user IDLE but the PythonWin 2.3.3
I thinkt PythonWin (from ActiveState.com ) is much better
It should be the one in the official distribution and not IDLE

Greetz,
Ivo.

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**Josiah Carlson** · Jul 18 '05, 04:50 PM

Re: IDLE--what are your experiences with it?

Kevin Walzer <sw@wordtech-software.com> wrote:
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> IDLE as an editor--what are its good points? What are its limitations?
> Any advice/insight is appreciated.[/color]

It is a decent editor for a handful of files at a time. The moment you
get beyond just a few documents; your taskbar becomes cluttered with
entries. It also doesn't have code folding, project support, ...

- Josiah

**Y2KYZFR1** · Jul 18 '05, 04:51 PM

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it is the lowest common denominator.

there are MUCH MUCH better alternatives

www.xored.com has a nice plugin for Eclipse 3.x

that is much better than IDLE

**Dennis Lee Bieber** · Jul 18 '05, 04:52 PM

Re: IDLE--what are your experiences with it?

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:12:39 +0200, "Ivo Woltring"
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It's not portable... IDLE is Tkinter based, and runs on
practically all platforms that support Python.

PythonWin is WINDOWS ONLY...

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**Ivo Woltring** · Jul 18 '05, 04:53 PM

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thanks will try it out

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