On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Wolfgang Strobl <ne...@mystrobl.de> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: >>I strongly recommend IDLE - much >>better editing/recall facilities than the command-line Python has), >>and work through the tutorial: > > Well, this is certainly a matter of taste. I'd recommend using some > small, language independent programmers editor and some modern > distributed version control system right at the beginning. Put your > code, even the smallest snippets, under version control, make that a > habit. Write small doctests for your code from the very beginning. Try > to construct your code so that it works equally well as a module and as > a standalone script Don't start developing web applications, write > some small utilities for your own needs, first. > > Personally, I suggest SciTE and TortoiseHG on Windows, but that too is, > as I said, a matter of taste.
I don't edit code in IDLE, I just use it for interactive work. For actual script editing, agreed (though I use git rather than hg), but it really does help to have a way to *very* quickly test a line or two of code. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
