If you use a simple editor only, it is similar as the work with web2py
integrated environment. You can just create and edit python files.
Of course the suitable editor must be special for Python writting: It must
at least convert the Tab into 4 spaces. And work with utf-8.
If you want more, then use some Python IDE.
What means more? Intellisense, Find strings through all projects folders
and files, Find usages of defined fuction or class (in all files), Go to
function or class definitions through click on their call/usage, ...
You have about 30 different Python IDE's to choose your best. I have no
good knowledge about all of them. I just have worked short time with
Eclipse and now about 3 years with PyCharm.
>From my opinion when I compare Eclipse and PyCharm, then PyCharm is much
much better. I speak about stability and speed. I cannot compare
properties, because I still use just basics from PyCharm. Example: I still
debug with the command line "from pdb import set_trace; set_trace()"
instead to use the Python integrated debugger.
However I believe PyCharm solution is excellent in such areas too. At least
I hear some experienced developers to say so.
PyCharm has the free ("community") edition. And has a payed edition. I use
the free edition.
Web2py is special Python software - model+controller+view run in same
scope, which was earlier prepared by Web2py internals. It makes things a
little easier for you because you have some useful things already imported
(request, response, session, html helpers, names from model). This is crazy
for the Python purists because they say: this is completly bad; this is not
Python, when you have inside the file some names from outside which are not
imported. I think, for the developer itself it is not so much bad. Because
we have here the limited number of well known and often used names and the
developer know from where these names come.
However it is serious problem for the IDE. If you have nice pure Python
code, where the names are from the current file or they are imported, then
for the IDE is easy to find name references in other files.
Here I am not sure if following is true (could somebody confirm it?), but I
think: Payed PyCharm version has improved support for Web2py to help find
the references, but free version hasn't such support. That means you cannot
work with Web2py excellent in the free version. Instead you still work very
poor, not much better as in the basics editors. Yes, a little better.
Clicking or rightclicking the name can find the reference in same file. But
to search the whole project, you cannot do this. You are however able to
search the name as string through all files of the project. Which is fast
too, but not so fast as Ctrl+click or RightClick+FindUsages.
I think you will make no mistake when you learn to work with PyCharm.
Regardless the possibilities can be (for Web2py) limited with regard to the
previous.
I don't know about Windows IDE's (Visual Studio) and probably they can be
good for you if you work with other programming languages in same IDE too
(if you already know such IDE).
However PyCharm belongs to the family of JetBrains company IDE's. So you
can use same environment in other programming languages too. However not
everything from JetBrains is for free.
And of course there is other way: A hard way for the beginning but during 6
months I think you will be happy. Install double boot Windows+Linux (even
better, if you know Linux has not some fatal problem with your hardware,
then remove Windows and install Linux only). Then use
Python+VirtualEnv+PyCharm.
VirtualEnv is not absolutely neccessary. However you should understand,
that more and more parts of Linux system are written in Python.
Example: You will use Debian on your notebook (which I can recommend (but
of course there is a lot of good possibilities): Debian Stable for highest
stability or Debian Testing for newer software versions (which is probably
good for the developers machine). In Debian (and I think all other Linux
distributions) Python2 and Python3 are already installed (because part of
system and lot of software use them) and packaging system has lot of
python2-xxx or python3-xxx packages which are installed together with some
additional (later installed) software.
And this is the problem: Distributions contains some versions of python and
of python-packages. However with system updates the versions can be
upgraded !
So you have possibility: You can develop your software with system versions
of Python and its components, and fix the behaviour when the system
versions will change. This is possible but not the best solution.
Better is install and activate virtualenv for the project folder. Then you
will work with fixed versions and you will upgrade versions when YOU will
want.
With Python3.4+ you have no need to install virtualenv. Just call: python3
-m venv venvdirectory/
Then you can switch the paths with: . venvdirectory/bin/activate
and you have the proper python+pip version and you can install what you
want with: pip install ....
Dne středa 24. ledna 2018 22:28:05 UTC+1 Andrea Fae' napsal(a):
>
> Web2py integrated ide environment is not bad, but with limited debugging,
> no intellisense and so on.
> I'd like to know what is a completely free IDE for using with web2py.
> Visual Studio Community? Visual Code Editor? In which way? How can I
> integrate web2py with these IDE? Is it possible?
> Can you suggest the best free IDE for web2py, with HTML, CSS, Javascript
> and, obviously Python 2?
> Thank you
>
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Resources:
- http://web2py.com
- http://web2py.com/book (Documentation)
- http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code)
- https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues)
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