On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 1/29/2016 3:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Fillmore <fillmore_rem...@hotmail.com> >> wrote: > > >>> - Is there a good IDE that can be used for debugging? all free IDEs for >>> Perl >>> suck and it would be awesome if Python was better than that. >>> >> >> Debugging Python code is generally easy enough without an IDE; any >> time something goes wrong, you get an exception with a very pretty >> traceback. That's usually enough on its own. A little bit of editor >> integration can help you jump to the lines mentioned, in the same way >> that you might get that with C compiler errors; that's all I've ever >> needed. > > > When one runs code from an IDLE editor, output and exceptions go to the IDLE > Shell. Right click on a traceback line and select 'Go to file/line' and > IDLE will display the file in an IDLE editor (opening it if necessary) and > put the cursor on the proper line. (It does the same with grep output.)
Yep. Same happens if you run the file from SciTE, and probably a lot of other editors too. I don't call them "IDEs" because of that one feature, but honestly, I don't need anything more of an IDE. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
