I should also say that right now I'm using Windows XP, but hope very soon to have Linux again. Ideally, this launcher would work in both.
I wrote, on February 20, 2017 7:44 AM > > Ben Finney wrote, on February 19, 2017 11:27 PM > > > > "Deborah Swanson" <pyt...@deborahswanson.net> writes: > > > > > I could probably write this myself, but I'm wondering if > this hasn't > > > > already been done many times. > > > > Can you describe what you are looking for, in enough detail > > that we can know whether it's already been done as you want it? > > > > -- > > \ "God forbid that any book should be banned. The > practice is as > | > > `\ indefensible as infanticide." > >-Dame Rebecca West | > > _o__) > | > > Ben Finney > > I deliberately left the question open-ended because I'm > curious what's out there. I've studied and practiced Python > for a little over a year, but I've spent that time mostly > writing my own code and I don't really know much about what > and where to look for in modules and packages. > > Basically, I now have quite a few Python programs I use > frequently, and as time goes on my collection and uses of it > will grow. Right now I just want a way to select which one > I'd like to run and run it. I'd like it to be a standalone > application and some sort of system of categories would be nice. > > I'm migrating tasks I've always done in Excel to Python, and > I have a sketchy idea of features I'd like to open Excel > with, but I hate Excel VBA so much that I haven't written an > on_Open macro for Excel yet. What I'd like to open with is > mostly a menu of macros I'd like to have available for any > code I'm running, possibly opening different environments for > different kinds of tasks, that sort of thing. I also plan to > use sqlite3 for permanent data storage, matplotlib for > charts, and tkinter for interfaces. That's all in the > planning stages, but one thing that seems like an obvious > need is a way to keep related code and its associated data, > charts, etc, easily accessible to each other, like they are > when they're all bundled together in an Excel workbook. I > have a few ideas about how to do that, but I'm also > interested in what other people have done. > > I probably won't know exactly what I want until I have one > and use it for awhile. I've been keeping my code for daily > computing open in my IDE and using the IDE for a launcher, > but it's getting a little crowded, and I'd like to access > those bits separately from code I'm currently working on. > > Deborah > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
