I would go with an IDE.
I don't thnk anyone can progress quickly without being able to step through the code and look at the variables and objects. My productivity skyrocketed when I discovered WingIDE under Windows. It almost feels like I am in Visual Studio. It is not free, but it will not break the bank as well. I am not sure how it works in FreeBSD (god I hope it does because that is the production server I will launch). _____ From: django-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:django-us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Russo Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 4:30 PM To: django-users@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Editors of choice On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Samuel Hopkins <hopkins.sam...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Django peeps, I am a Django newbee. I have had my eye on Djanjo for a year or so now but held off because I had limited python experience. However, after a summer of python and watching Django's popularity snowball, I think I am ready to go :) Anyhow, the purpose of this email was just to ask the community what editor(s) they preferred to use with Django. I have used and enjoyed the Python support NetBeans. It's almost complete but if you like to have a visual debugger it works well. The only real nag is that I had to kill the Python process that it started durring debug because for some reason it didn't kill it automatically when the debug session ended. The other problem I had was that I'm doing the bulk of my development work on a very old computer (PIII 350 w/ 256 megs ram, impressive huh? :o) ) so Netbeans being a fairly new fangled piece of software didn't run very well. Though I did actually struggle through it for about a month or so, which says some good things about it's performance that I was even able to do that. I then switched to just using Textpad with Python highlighting and pdb (http://docs.python.org/library/pdb.html) for debugging. Once you get the hang of pdb it's extremely powerful. It basically drops you right into the code with a Python command line. If you don't yet have experience with the Python command line I would highly recommend getting a feel for it. They use it through out the Python tutorial in the docs (http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html), so that would be a good place to start if you haven't done that yet. Just yesterday I downloaded Komodo Edit (http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/) it's half way between a text editor and an IDE like Netbeans. I only have a few days experience with it and I've just been doing HTML and CSS work the last few days, so I'm not sure about it's debugging capabilities. It does have code completion that works well. That's my experience so far. I hope it helps. Josh --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
