Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.xcski.com!ncf.ca!not-for-mail From: "Colin J. Williams" Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Interactive development in Python =?UTF-8?B?w6AgbGEgU21hbGx0?= =?UTF-8?B?YWxrPw==?= Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:26:40 -0400 Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Lines: 15 Sender: fn681@206-47-113-154.dsl.ncf.ca Message-ID: <5162B780.5050101@ncf.ca> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-47-113-154.dsl.ncf.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: theodyn.ncf.ca 1365424012 20639 206.47.113.154 (8 Apr 2013 12:26:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: complaints@ncf.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Apr 2013 12:26:52 GMT To: Bienlein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:43067 On 08/04/2013 4:33 AM, Bienlein wrote: > Hello, > > I'm absolutely new to Python, just looked at the language description for the first time. The first thought that came to my mind was whether you can program in Python in an interactive programming style, i.e. I can change code in the debugger which becomes immediately effective (no edit-compile loop) and I can also send messages to objects visible inside the debugger. > > Then Python could become my replacemenet for my dearly missed Smalltalk, which to my great grief meanwhile really has become quite dead, I fear. In Smalltalk you can open up an inspector window (e.g. you don't have to get into debug mode), inspect objects in it and evaluate code in it, send messaages to objects. I guess this cannot be done in Python out of the box. But if changes made in the debugger became immediately effective, this would be interactive enough for my purposes. > > Thanks, Bienlein > If you are using Windows, PyScripter is a good choice. I understand that, with Linux, it can also be used with Wine. I haven't tried that. Colin W.