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  • 06-08-2013 2:10pm
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    L.Jenkins
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    Had my first experience of Python during the week. I'm wondering what is the best open source and IDE and testing environments I could get my hands on? I can get my hands on manuals to aid in my own learning no hassle, so that won't be a problem.


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    Seridisand
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    Aptana Studio 3, the pydev plugin is a good open source IDE, I'd use Jenkins if you want to perform integrated testing


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    L.Jenkins
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    Thanks Seridisand


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    Aswerty
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    An interesting read on Python development in Visual Studio from one of my favourite bloggers in the MS world – http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OneOfMicrosoftsBestKeptSecretsPythonToolsForVisualStudioPTVS.aspx

    I've been meaning to have a look into it myself.


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    Manach
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    As well, O'Reilly have a good set of beginner books on Python for starters.


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    L.Jenkins
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    Aswerty wrote: »
    An interesting read on Python development in Visual Studio from one of my favourite bloggers in the MS world – http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OneOfMicrosoftsBestKeptSecretsPythonToolsForVisualStudioPTVS.aspx

    I've been meaning to have a look into it myself.

    Thanks for the link. I never copped that VS can run Python Dev and Testing.
    Manach wrote: »
    As well, O'Reilly have a good set of beginner books on Python for starters.

    After downloading a load of PDFs on Python regards Beginners coding and more advanced development.


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    fergalr
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    Pycharm is pretty good, and not too expensive (~80e).

    You can go a long way with just a good editor (e.g. vim) because you write a lot in not much python.

    Also, and this is a bad point against python, the IDEs, in my experience, are not nearly as important as in Java; because of the fact that python is more dynamic, the code inspection, refactoring etc isn't as deep or useful as with Java IDEs.

    I think the tradeoff is still worth it for using Python, but it'd be better if the tools were better.


    This is why I think that languages like Python are only transitional...


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    Tar.Aldarion
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    Could use sublime, or something like eclipse/netbeans.

    For python I find gedit/vim fine.

    http://learnpythonthehardway.org/


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    nagilum2
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    If you're still interested, JetBrains have just released a Community Edition of PyCharm. It's probably the best Python IDE available, if you prefer an IDE vs. VIM/EMACS/Sublime.

    http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/


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    djmarkus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭djmarkus


    +1 for pycharm. Don't let the fact that it's actually java turn you off. :)


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