Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-05 Thread Mike Meyer
Nick Vargish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> - identing with tabs > > Indenting with tabs is pretty much frowned upon in Python, as Guido > relates in PEP 8: > > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html > > I guess it doesn't matter much if you are the only pers

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Vargish
Mage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - identing with tabs Indenting with tabs is pretty much frowned upon in Python, as Guido relates in PEP 8: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html I guess it doesn't matter much if you are the only person who will ever touch your code, and you never, ever, ac

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-03 Thread Mike Meyer
"Heather Stovold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I've decided on DrPython for the Editor >> >> An editor for each language? Is that the kind of tower you get when >> you start using IDEs? I just kept right on using the same text editor >> I'd been using for the last 20 (now 30) years. > I ha

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-03 Thread Anand S Bisen
Hi I see everybody talking about Eclipse and PyDev i have not used it but just wanted to know how does it compares with Activestate Komodo? thanks Anand Maurice LING wrote: > Hi, > > It seems that you are just starting on Python, same as my situation a > year ago. After almost going down the

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-03 Thread Mage
Heather Stovold wrote: > >I have programmed in the past with a plain text editor too did it for >years. - but I much prefer programming with tools that have syntax coloring, >code completion, and the ability to run from the editor. Debugging tools are >a bonus too. > > My opinion is that the GUI

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-03 Thread Heather Stovold
> My personal suggestion would be to go with SQLite because it's a > standard database which can be used with large number of other tools and > languages. > > As for report generating features, I don't know of any free report > generators that are as easy to use like the one in Access (e.g. > point

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-03 Thread Heather Stovold
> I really don't see why you should lay everything in stone before you > start. Things may or may not fall into place. Worry about it when it > worries you. > Well, my program is going to require all these things. Information required to even build the screen is being stored in the database. (Th

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-03 Thread Heather Stovold
> > I've decided on DrPython for the Editor > > An editor for each language? Is that the kind of tower you get when > you start using IDEs? I just kept right on using the same text editor > I'd been using for the last 20 (now 30) years. I have programmed in the past with a plain text editor t

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Heather Stovold wrote: > I still need to decide on a database I've really only used Access, > and my SQL skills aren't that great. It would also need to be free As many others have suggested, if you're comming from Access, SQLite or Gadfly would probably be good starting points, b

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-02 Thread Steve Holden
Heather Stovold wrote: > Wow - deciding to program in python sure requires a lot of decisions! > > So far: > > I've decided on python for the programming language. > I've decided on wxpython for the GUI > I've decided on DrPython for the Editor > > I still need to decide on a database...

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-02 Thread Maurice LING
Hi, It seems that you are just starting on Python, same as my situation a year ago. After almost going down the same route as you do, I tell myself just start on something. You can decide on everything but by the time you've decided, everything changes again. Initially, I started on Java t

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-02 Thread Mike Meyer
"Heather Stovold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wow - deciding to program in python sure requires a lot of decisions! It wasn't for me. > So far: > > I've decided on python for the programming language. > I've decided on wxpython for the GUI Hmm. I started writing CGI apps, so I didn't need

Re: So many things that need to be decided....

2005-05-02 Thread Peter Hansen
Heather Stovold wrote: > Wow - deciding to program in python sure requires a lot of decisions! > > So far: > > I've decided on python for the programming language. > I've decided on wxpython for the GUI > I've decided on DrPython for the Editor > > I still need to decide on a database...