Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: tjohnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Pyscripter Issues Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:02:53 -0400 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <56fd29e7.13821c0a.a7261.0f02@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de qLvSTzsVwU3KrW7mHu6o+wkNJrxrytlqaUDSCicZonjw== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.003 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'anyway.': 0.04; 'initialize': 0.05; 'nicely': 0.07; 'advice?': 0.09; 'already.': 0.09; 'git': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'whichever': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; 'python.': 0.11; 'thursday,': 0.13; 'explicitly,': 0.16; 'osx': 0.16; 'prefer.': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'switched': 0.18; 'versions': 0.20; 'cc:2**0': 0.20; 'martin': 0.22; '31,': 0.22; 'either.': 0.22; 'trying': 0.22; 'am,': 0.23; 'bit': 0.23; 'seems': 0.23; 'consistent': 0.23; 'unlike': 0.23; 'tried': 0.24; 'cc:addr:gmail.com': 0.24; 'header :In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; "doesn't": 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'error': 0.27; 'moved': 0.27; 'itself,': 0.29; 'windows,': 0.29; "i'm": 0.30; 'another': 0.32; 'run': 0.33; 'problem': 0.33; 'received:comcast.net': 0.33; 'though.': 0.33; 'done': 0.35; 'supports': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'too': 0.36; 'received:71': 0.36; "wasn't": 0.36; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'being': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.37; 'wanted': 0.37; 'version': 0.38; 'sure': 0.39; 'does': 0.39; 'rather': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; "you'll": 0.61; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.62; 'strictly': 0.64; 'march': 0.64; 'liked': 0.67; 'situation': 0.67; 'user,': 0.67; 'heavy': 0.81; '3.4': 0.84; '3.5.1': 0.84; 'computers.': 0.84; 'from:addr:outlook.com': 0.84; 'happier': 0.84; 'nice,': 0.84; 'seriously,': 0.91; 'ware': 0.91; 'lot,': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-206-231-117.hsd1.pa.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 160331-1, 03/31/2016), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:106181 On 3/31/2016 11:29 AM, Zachary Ware wrote: > On Thursday, March 31, 2016, Simon Martin wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> I have been having issues trying to run python 3.5.1 and pyscripter 2.6. Giving the error message that it cannot initialize python. >> >> I have tried to re-install multiple versions of both python and pyscripter to no avail. Any advice? > > Use PyCharm. > > Less bluntly, I used to be a heavy PyScripter user, but after it took > forever for PyScripter to support Python 3.4 (I wasn't even sure if it > did yet, but it apparently does as of a year ago, added one year after > 3.4 was released), I moved on. PyScripter also has the big > disadvantage of being strictly single-platform, unlike Python itself, > so if you were to try to develop on another platform you would have to > learn a new IDE/editor anyway. I have found PyCharm to be very nice, > and very consistent cross-platform--I use it regularly on OSX and > Windows, and have also used it on Linux. I'm also becoming rather > partial to vim, which is also nicely cross-platform: if you have Git > on Windows, you have vim available already. Vim does have a somewhat > steeper learning curve, though. My situation is similar. I used to use PyScripter and liked it a lot, but when Python 3.4 support wasn't being added and I wanted a cross-platform IDE, I switched to PyDev. > > Looking a bit deeper into what your problem might actually be, > PyScripter does not support Python 3.5. Support for each new Python > version has to be added explicitly, and it has not been done for 3.5.] For the record, it doesn't work with Python 2.7.11 either. PyScripter only supports Python <= 2.7.10 and <= 3.4.x. > > But seriously, you'll be much happier with PyCharm. Or PyDev, whichever you prefer. I think PyCharm is easier to use than PyDev, but it seems too resource heavy for some computers.