Re: [pygame] recommendation for a good n00b IDE

["Sean Wolfe" <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: recommendation for a good n00b IDE

Thanks everybody for your responses. . . good stuff, I've been checking out your recommendations.

 

Er, yeah I'm using winXP (and Outlook too. . . honestly I'm kewler in person, I promise.) When my current Toshiba laptop dies I'll probably move to OSX, since I'll prolly be buying an osx machine for some music recording projects.

 

Is there an IDLE development page somewhere that I'm missing? I still can't get over the python.org page being dated March 2000. Wasn't that in the days of like. . . fortran or something?  :o)

 

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From: owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-pygame-users@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sean Wolfe
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 5:00 PM
To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [pygame] recommendation for a good n00b IDE

Hey folks, how goes it? I'm new to python and pygame. I have a question for you regarding IDEs.

I have been using IDLE so far, what came with python 2.5, and I like its simple stripped down approach. However I am getting a bit frustrated with what seems to be a bug with the 'Run Module' feature where you can run your code by just hitting the F5 key within the editor. This feature seems to crash a lot. I applied the 'IDLE hangs up' fix from pygame.org, but still getting some crashes and freezes.

It seems like IDLE hasn't been in development for quite a while? The documentation page on python.org is something like. . . 8 *years* old.

So. . . . any recommendations for a good n00b IDE? I really like IDLE's stripped down no-frills approach. Also, I need to be able to set a white-on-black color scheme. . . much easier on the eyes.

thanks!