Hi, I'm a FoxPro programmer, but I want to learn python before it's too late. I do a lot of statistical programming, so I import SPSS into python. In my opinion, the best features of Visual FoxPro 9.0 were: a) Intellisense (tells you what classes/methods are available and what variables go into a function) b) Code Completion (guesses your code after four letters) c) Data-Orientation; multiple data sessions can be open, data can be viewed easily
Python's IDLE has only half of the first of these features. I did a lot of searching and found the PyDev extensions for Eclipse's Python IDE, and found that they've got Intellisense. I'm still missing b and c, and am getting extremely frustrated programming so slowly.. So two questions: Is there any package, gui, IDE, anything that will do FoxPro-style code completion? If it works in Eclipse, even better.. I can't find a good screenshot, but here's a better description: You type "BROW" and it pops up a window that says "BROWSE" ..at this point if you hit enter it completes the word.. and How can I view open SPSS data in one of the Python GUIs? Again, Eclipse would be the preference. Here's an example of how I'd like to browse the data: http://www.vfpconversion.com/ArticleImage.aspx?QuickID=0209071&Image=vfptoolkit_figure02.tif I don't want to have to switch back and forth between Python and SPSS while I'm programming; I just want to stay in one of them.. What can I do? I feel extremely inefficient when I don't have these three features.. Thanks in advance. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
