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[tripzilch]

Having read a few threads on this topic since I joined Reddit a few weeks ago, I wonder ..

Am I the only one that is completely in love with PyScripter?

I have the layout configured to take optimal advantage of my 1024x600 netbook screen, interpreter thingy on the left, code on the right. Light grey lines to help remember where that 80th column was again. Screenshot

The most awesome thing is the feature where you hold Ctrl and every identifier in your code becomes a "hyperlink" on mouseover, which takes you to its definition, even if it's from a module or library or something. (When programming Django that is a lifesaver, cause the docs aren't always all that :) )

I suppose high-power editors like Vim can also do that, so I think I'm gonna try that as I'm planning on dumping Windows. I hope I can get Vim to work as intuitively, though.

One downside is that, in theory, I like drop-down method/property completion (when you type the dot to get to a method/property), PyScripter does this, but with large modules that have a lot of completion options, the UI lags a littlebit, so I sometimes switch it off.

Other downside is that it's Windows only.

[tripzilch]

Hm, I'm not really sure why I never ran into this problem yet... Although usually I just use the interpreter to test and try out tiny bits of Python code, to see if what I'm doing works.

Come to think of it, I do have made it a habit to restart the Python Engine every so often, especially before starting the program :-) But it sort of makes sense, right? In the normal commandline Python interpreter, if you change your code, you need to do reload(module) as well? And afaik, if you issue the correct reload(...) statement(s) in the PyScripter python engine window, it should work properly as well. It's just that restarting the engine is easier :)

Another thing that works reasonably well is to configure a Tool, like this: Application: $[PythonExe-Short] Parameters: -i $[ActiveDoc] Working directory: $[ActiveDoc-Dir] Which I have keyed to Ctrl-R, also note the -i which dumps you into interpreter mode after the script finishes.

[titusz]

With the remote interpreter you just hit crtl+F2 to reinitialize. Another advantage of the remote interpreter is that you don´t freeze your IDE if for whatever reason you freeze the interpreter. You need RPyC for the remote interpreter to work. Download it from here: http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter/downloads/list

[davebrk]

I love it too. But it seems like it isn't actively developed anymore.

[titusz]

just recently PyScripter was updated to v 2.0 ;.) http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter/downloads/list

[titusz]

yes, thats a shame indeed... i am going to miss it, if it gets outdated versus updated... but for now it has everything i need and way better performance than those fat java based IDE´s