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Subject: Re: psss...I want to move from Perl to Python
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On 1/29/2016 3:51 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Fillmore <fillmore_remove@hotmail.com> wrote:

>> - Is there a good IDE that can be used for debugging? all free IDEs for Perl
>> suck and it would be awesome if Python was better than that.
>>
>
> Debugging Python code is generally easy enough without an IDE; any
> time something goes wrong, you get an exception with a very pretty
> traceback. That's usually enough on its own. A little bit of editor
> integration can help you jump to the lines mentioned, in the same way
> that you might get that with C compiler errors; that's all I've ever
> needed.

When one runs code from an IDLE editor, output and exceptions go to the 
IDLE Shell.  Right click on a traceback line and select 'Go to 
file/line' and IDLE will display the file in an IDLE editor (opening it 
if necessary) and put the cursor on the proper line.  (It does the same 
with grep output.)

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy