warpcat wrote: > I've been scripting in Maya, via mel for years now. Recently learning > to Python, love it. Thing that's driving me nuts it the IDE. I'm > using PythonWin right now and trying to find something better, mainly > with this functionality: > > In Maya's mel script editor window, it's split into two sections. > Bottom window you can enter commands (where your script lives), top > window gives results. The thing I'm really used to is highlighting X# > of lines in the bottom window (little snippits from my script), and > executing that selection, with instant feedback of the results on top. > This really speeds my workflow. > It seems completely missing (so far) in Python's IDE. I have to copy > and paste from a script to the ide window to execute and see the > results, or I have to make a bunch of "buffer scripts" with just the > code snippetsI want to test in. Seems *really* clunky. > > Does anyone know of a scripting enviroment for Python that mimics what > Maya's script editor has? Much appreciated. > I don't know of anything that exhibits the exact behaviour you describe, but then again you might like to consider that i found your request very odd. I'm sure that way of testing code seems entirely natural to you, but I can honestly say that in almost ten years using Python it's not something I have ever wished for.
You might also wish to reconsider your approach to the Python community. "PythonWin sucks" isn't my idea of how to win friends and influence people in a first posting to a usenet newsgroup. By and large we are a friendly bunch here, but you don't want to start off on the wrong foot :-) Take a look at DrPython (http://drpython.sourceforge.net/) - you might be able to script it to do what you want, and anyway it's more of a lightweight interface than PythonWin so you might find it less intrusive. [Irrelevant ramble: Man, SoureceForge really know how to screw a web site up. I'm guessing they think that the changes of the last year are "improvements". Boy are they wrong. What a mess!] regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Love me, love my blog http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
