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September 9th, 2002, 07:35 AM
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A newbie question about Python
Hello all,
I am new to Python. -I would like to know please what editor do you recommend to work with Python. -Do we compile the programs in Python like we do in C or C++ ? -Besides this great forum is there another good place for online documentation regarding Python? Thank-you in advance, LIOR
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September 9th, 2002, 08:17 AM
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editor: use IDLE which comes with Python... or you can use vim or emacs (Unix)
compilation: no you dun really compile Python scripts... Python scripts are run like Perl scripts (passed to the Python interpreter) which _also_ compiles your .py files into Python bytecode .pyc... but no - there is no compile step like in C/C++ online docs: check the main site www.python.org... the best documentation is all there
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September 9th, 2002, 08:21 AM
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thanks...!
Well that was a quick reply, thank-you for that.
What is this IDLE editor? I guess actually any good editor will do if no compiling is needed here. I currently use Visual Slick Edit which is quite a nice tool for any editing actually, I guess I will wtick to that one. Thanks again, LIOR 
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September 9th, 2002, 08:29 AM
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heh i just happened to pop by just after you posted i guess
 IDLE stands for Integrated DeveLopment Environment... it's an editor that comes with Python and is written by one of the Python guys... it comes with most distributed Python binaries... read more about it here -> http://www.python.org/idle/ and yes just about any editor would do, though one thing you have to be careful of is that you don't mix tabs and spaces, since Python is scoped using whitespace (i'm sure you already know that)
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September 9th, 2002, 08:33 AM
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Thank-you again...
Hi there...
Thanks for the additional information. Actually I do not know of what you said about whitespaces and tabs..... Could you please explain more about this. I am sorry to be so ignorant here, but I really am ...!  Thank you again, and you can contact me via ICQ or my regular e-mail... LIOR
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September 9th, 2002, 10:20 AM
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editor...
I use TextPad (www.textpad.com) and Notepad (www.microsoft.com)
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September 11th, 2002, 09:55 PM
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i do not know a lot about python, but I do know that it interprets spaces in the code. A whole file can not run because of incorrect spacing. wabirdman
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#8
September 12th, 2002, 12:09 AM
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Python doesn't really interpret whitespace... it uses whitespace the way we use braces in most other programming languages (C, Java) to group statements or form scoping rules
Code:
if(condition)
{
if(othercondition)
{
do this;
do that;
}
}
whereas in python, this is how you structure your code with whitespace: Code:
if condition:
if othercondition:
do this
do that
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