Wish: In wxPython installer, add PyCrust (->"Interactive consoles") and PyAlaCarte (editor ->"Applications"?) in pythonxy-shortcuts.

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi, Pierre,

just played with two python-apps that come with wxPython: (i) PyCrust.py,
(ii) PyAlaCarte, both can be found in

\pythonxy\python\Lib\site-packages\wx\py

and can be started stand-alone.

The first is an interactive shell similar to IPython, it has a history
window (like MATLAB has) and IPython's history function (pressing Ctrl+Up
instead of Up only) and some nice features like
Scintilla-Command-Completion (Popping up combo-box, like in Intellisense),
function documentation that stay in a window, and a namespace browser for
local variables (like MATLAB has).

PyAlaCarte is a light-weight Python editor that does not require a
workspace like Eclipse does and it has features similar to PyCrust. Both
are not perfect, i.e. IPython's "run" is missing in PyCrust, but they are
very handy.

There is also an IPython shell that runs in wxPython, but for this purpose,
there is already IPython in the Command++-shell.

If there are similar tools that do a better job, then of course I'd love to
be convinced ;-)

Regards,

       Fabian

Original issue reported on code.google.com by grosser....@googlemail.com on 17 Oct 2008 at 2:35

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Well, after playing around with these two tools, I tend to think that maybe 
adding
them to the shortcuts is not really necessary. Maybe need a few more 
iterations. Both
tools (PyCrust and PyAlaCarte) have useful features without a doubt, but there 
are
still a few issues left (Rescanning namespaces while editing has to be done 
manually;
function descriptions disappear just too early as soon as a first parameter has 
been
typed)...

Nevermind and have a nice weekend...

          Fabian

Original comment by grosser....@googlemail.com on 18 Oct 2008 at 12:49

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Ok, Fabian, thanks anyway for these ideas.

Have a nice week-end too.
Pierre

Original comment by pierre.raybaut on 18 Oct 2008 at 8:42

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