On Monday, December 18, 2017 at 1:06:09 PM UTC, Erik Bray wrote:
>
> That sounds a bit bogus to me.  I've never used PyCharm before and don't 
> know how it works, but I suspect it could be made to work with Cygwin's 
> Python. 
>

PyCharm is a closed-source product that has a wizard to pick up "the 
Python", and this wizard won't work with Cygwin's Python, as the product's 
vendor says. Bogus or not...

 

> It's pretty low-priority for me though.  I don't see how using PyCharm to 
> edit sage source code would be useful--it won't even do syntax highlighting 
> properly, unless I'm missing something.
>
> On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 2:01:08 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>
>> I've already expalined here 
>> https://github.com/sagemath/sage-windows/issues/12 that PyCharm doesn't 
>> support Cygwin Python,
>> and thus it's not going to be trivial to fix. The reason that we must use 
>> Cygwin Python is that a number of essential Sage components (i.e. Python 
>> extensions you need) e.g. GAP, won't work natively on Windows, as they use 
>> fork() and other Unix/Posix specific system functions.  
>>
>> On Saturday, December 16, 2017 at 12:19:56 PM UTC, PHPirate wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks, it sounds reasonable. But do you mean the Jupyter notebook 
>>> included with Sage, which you can start with 
>>> sage --notebook ipython
>>> from the Sage shell? I do not like notebooks such as this one and 
>>> Mathematica because they do not go well with a VCS. Is it then possible to 
>>> use this Jupyter to edit and run Sage files saved in a better way, like 
>>> python files?
>>>
>>

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