On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM, kaffeen<kaff...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, just joined this list and am just beginning to learn Python. > Thanks to everyone for making this a great place to learn and their > contributions. > > As mentioned, I'm new to Python (but have experience with other programming > languages/scripting). I have a couple of questions... <snip> > 2) What are the differences between IPython and IDLE, is one better than the > other, why?
IDLE is a GUI interactive interpreter and IDE that uses the Tk GUI toolkit. IPython is a command-line interactive interpreter with tab-completion, advanced command history functions, and other handy extras. I would say they have completely different purposes. IPython is a souped-up version of the command-line Python REPL, but doesn't include a text editor for writing a file of code. It is very good for experimenting and exploring with though. IDLE is a quite servicable free IDE. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
