On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Mohan Parthasarathy <surut...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <eckha...@satorlaser.com > > wrote: > >> Steve Ferg wrote: >> > On the one hand, there are developers who love big IDEs with lots of >> > features (code generation, error checking, etc.), and rely on them to >> > provide the high level of support needed to be reasonably productive >> > in heavy-weight languages (e.g. Java). >> > >> > On the other hand there are developers who much prefer to keep things >> > light-weight and simple. They like clean high-level languages (e.g. >> > Python) which are compact enough that you can keep the whole language >> > in your head, and require only a good text editor to be used >> > effectively. >> >> This distinction is IMHO not correct. If you took a look at Java, you >> would >> notice that the core language syntax is much simpler than Python's. OTOH, >> if you add the standard libraries, you would soon see that Python's >> libraries are not as consistent (i.e. conformant to PEP8) as Java's. >> >> What makes up for Python's perceived usability problems though is the >> commandline parser that allows you to inspect the type of an object and >> its >> parts of it at runtime, in particular the docstrings are a treasure there. >> >> That said, an IDE that provides auto-completion (e.g. that gives you a >> list >> of available class members) is a good thing in Java, because you don't >> have >> to browse the documentation as often. With Python, that is impossible >> because there are no types bound to parameters, so any type that fits is >> allowed (duck typing). >> > > I just downloaded the Aptana IDE which has Python support and I have not > tried it yet. But I remebered seeing this thread. Has anyone used the Aptana > IDE for Python development ? > The "Aptana IDE" is just Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) with Aptana's plugins installed (you can get the plugins using a normal eclipse build too). The Python plugin they use is called PyDev (pydev.sourceforge.net). Look through the archives for all the people using eclipse + pydev. There are lots of them. > > thanks > mohan > > >> >> Uli >> >> -- >> Sator Laser GmbH >> Geschäftsführer: Thorsten Föcking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 >> >> -- >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > >
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