Re: [Gnumed-devel] lack of static (compile time checking) in python.

[richard terry]

I downloaded the latest version last night.

It has certainly come a long way in the last 18 months and is probably useful 
to get used to gui design, and to see what the resultant code is like.

Though I don't do much coding, in the end I found it much easier to get used 
to doing it by hand in an editor (I used Wing ide which has autocompletion) 
and just run it, see what happens, adjust the gui etc.

Regards

Richard Terry

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 12:02 pm, Les Ferguson wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2003 20:33, s j tan wrote:
> > It would be nice for a tool for python that does:
> >             1. assisted text input ( whatever that’s called) , i.e.
> > recognizes library method names , does some syntax checking, in an IDE.
> >
> > Besides having to give up slack programming habits,  is there an easier
> > way to deal with pythons non-compiling non-type checking philosophy?
>
> I'm still fairly new on Python, but I have installed the latest
> Boa-Constructor IDE, and it has what I would call the beginnings of
> code-completion - you can type a dot after a class name then pop up a
> select-list of things belonging to that class (it may do more I haven't
> really looked into it).  The syntax coloring helps a little in
> double-checking your code as you go also.
>
> On the tools side, it appears to hook in several useful things, profiling
> your code and checking its validity with PyChecker, which has a promising
> description page but I have not used it at all yet, this sounds like what
> you want.
>
> Does anybody use Boa-Constructor for their regular Python IDE, or just for
> designing forms ?  Is it worth the effort, or should one just keep an eye
> on it as a project-in-development still ?