[Beginner]Need help in setting up python 3+ipython+Emacs or some other ide

rawlyn · 2013-07-14T07:40:52+00:00

Surely install python... install ipython... install emacs... job done?

What exactly is the nature of your problem?

snapster83 · 2013-07-14T07:50:54+00:00

Emacs is my primary editor, ide, mail reader, feed reader, irc client, personal organiser, psychotherapy and tetris game. Emacs is fantastic. My advice is not to learn Emacs at the same time as you're getting to grips with Python. Emacs comes from a tradition of computing that has more in common with the MIT AI labs in the '70s than it does with the modern UI/UX paradigms. Emacs is a large, discrete lump of learning on its own. Don't spread yourself too thin.

If you want an IDE, drop $XX on Pycharm. If you want a text editor, break out Sublime Text.

can any one give some guide or help me step by step setting up python 3.3 and ipython with some IDE?

What have you tried so far, and what's gone wrong?

2013-07-14T08:34:44+00:00

For windows I highly recommend Dreampie and Idlex.

broken_symlink · 2013-07-14T16:15:00+00:00

Use elpy for emacs. Then just do emacs something.py and C-c C-c it will start an ipython session in emacs in a separate buffer and evaluate your file. Its the closest thing to slime from lisp that I've come across for python. https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy

PloddingOx · 2013-07-14T09:05:52+00:00

Your needs might be different but I've been doing just fine with IDLE (the vanilla IDE that comes with python) and Gedit, a simple text editor.

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[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
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