Oleg Broytmann wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 09:01:04PM +0200, Kirill Simonov wrote: > >> Could anyone suggest me a simple IDE suitable for teaching Python as a >> first programming language to high school students >> which operating system would this concern? IDLE which you might find comes with python, or is installable separately is a good bet, one nice feature is that when you open up the initial parenthese on a method call, it can list the arguments that the method expects. ipython is very good too, it allows tab completion of class methods/attributes and the like, which can make navigating your way around a new class magnitudes easier. only the former can really be considered an IDE. It'd be great to see them combined somehow.
I personally use pida (http://pida.berlios.de). It is perhaps not a beginners IDE, but it has advantages such as being able to plug in a few different editors, some of which are very easy to use. It has a class browser which you can have on a sidebar, integrated docbook support, the ability to open python and other types of shell as part of the window, syntax checking and more. It can aid development to no end. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
