On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Christopher Reimer <christopher_rei...@icloud.com> wrote: > On Oct 27, 2017, at 1:49 AM, Peter J. Holzer <hjp-usen...@hjp.at> wrote: >> >> BTW, I find it hard to believe that PyCharm for the Mac "comes with" >> Python 2.6. Python 2.6 is quite old. The Linux version isn't bundled >> with a python interpreter and just uses whatever is already installed on >> the machine. I guess it's the same for the Mac: Your version of MacOS >> happens to include Python 2.6, so this is what PyCharm uses. > > I find it hard to believe that a professor would recommend downloading an IDE > at the start of an intro class. Students usually start off with a text editor.
No, I can definitely believe it. Among other advantages, getting everyone onto a cross-platform IDE will tend to paper over a lot of OS differences. You have three sets of instructions for downloading some IDE for Lin/Mac/Win, and then everything else is just "here's how you do it in <this IDE>". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
