On 11/1/18 10:11 AM, Michael Fischer wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01, Doug wrote:
On 10/31/2018 05:14 PM, George from the tribe wrote:
I am looking to get started on learning python. Any python programmers out there?
My number 1 question is, what is your preferred IDE? I am looking at a medium sized project (for my experience) and I expect I will need some good troubleshooting tools that also give syntax help.
I have read that Eclipse is a really good IDE for python, even though it is mostly used for java, and that PyDev adds lots of features to Eclipse. But there are other recommendations also.
Anyone have any thoughts on what you have used and prefer? Advantages and disadvantages?
I started to look at Python, but I am turned off by the necessity to indent scrupulously. I am used to the original BASIC language and Turbo PASCAL, which I like better than BASIC, since it has
One gets used to it quite quickly. Sort of like folks do with "all the parentheses" in LISP.
the CASE statement. Is there a version of Python that doesn't require this nonsense, or is there a Linux Python editor that does this automatically?
No, python has no CASE statement.
Install Python 3.{6,7}, pip-install ipython and open the tutorials.
Michael
Are the tutorials you are talking about the tutorials available on the web? Or do you mean some specific python tutorials built into the packages that we install? I am running tumbleweed and python 3.6.5, which came as part of the standard tumbleweed packaging. -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: TW | Plasma 5.13 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 15.0 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org