does anyone know if there a vba style compiler/gui for python. i am using the regular IDLE and it is difficult to navigate from function to function. with the VBA editor you are able to skip from function to function with a listbox. does anyone know if such a thing exists for python?
Eclipse with PyDev can do this. Eric apparently can too.
there are several Frameworks for GUI programming and some GUI-Editors/IDEs
a summery on what frameworks exists, is available in the python wiki
Which to use depends largely on your preferences, the plattform you are using and your skills
Learn a decent text editor, and learn it well.
In vim for instance, I would search for def func and get there WAY faster than you ever could using your mouse in a drop-down list.
[PyScripter](http://code.google.com/p/pyscripter/"This is the download page.") is good and is actively developed.
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I am wrting a Python application for the first time and I am using Pycharm as the slected IDE. One thing that I notice I can;t see all classses and methods for the object I am using. I have coded with intelligIdea to code Scala and Java as well. They are easier to code since code intelligence is really handy but In Python it is not convineit..
suppose I am writing
divs=innerTree.cssselect('div.story-body__inner')
when I write innerTree. Pycharm doesnt suggest cssseelct while I used to write Scala/Java with the same Idea, they suggested all available accesible classes.
Is thet any problem with my IDEA?
There are a few of possible reasons:
innerTree doesn't actually have a cssselect method. Seems obvious, but this one catches me out more often than I'd like to admit.
PyCharm doesn't know what innerTree is an instance of.
You need to clear PyCharm's cache and restart. Which is pretty much the "have you tried turning it off and on again?" of PyCharm.
Side note, you can also use IntelliJ to do everything that PyCharm does. It's a bit harder to set up, but it's easier that switching back and forth i.m.o.
I am writing a text based game in python and as you'd expect, it has many questions with multiple answers e.g. yes/no.
I have been been using the usual, input your answer, answering technique, but I was hoping to make it a bit more interactive in answering some options, such as the main menu. I do not want a full on GUI but is there some way to have something similar to, for example, the modern BIOS menu, where you use the arrow keys to navigate, and press enter to select?
http://www.washington.edu/lst1/help/computing_fundamentals/troubleshootingxp/img/bios.gif
Thanks for any reply's, whether it's possible or not!
P.S. I would rather not have to download any plugins etc, because I have to be able to use this at school where I cannot use them.
This is a rather open-ended question (not have to download any "plugins")? But what you want is the curses library, to which Python has an interface with its curses module. The Python docs provide a simple tutorial for using it.
There is also a library called Blessings which provides a nicer, more modern object-oriented interface to curses. I haven't tried it but it's well supported and looks pretty good.
Take a look at the Urwid library: http://excess.org/urwid/
(I know you'd like to not use an external module, but that means you'll essentially have to reimplement most of CURSES yourself, and that's a road you really don't want to take)
We are in the process of standing up a UI on top of a python system. This is all throw away code, so we want something quick, yet presentable.
We will have a couple of "interfaces" but they will be of two types. One will be control, it will basically be sitting on top of a python thread, and accepting requests from the user.
The other will be more of a display screen that will need to be able to display images, and some classic "grid views" of text to the user.
We pretty much know we could* do all of this in HTML but wasn't sure what would be the best way to interact with the core python code?
Anyone know of a good UI python presentation layer? Since we know we can do all of this in HTML/Jquery pretty quickly, we are also open to suggestions on how to integrate this with a web server..
Any suggestions? Really interested in finding out if there is any way to use python as the back end to a webserver.
Let me know if you all need more information.
I like wxPython. The demo application is excellent and lets you browse, tweak and re-run the code right in the demo.
We have found the DJango meets our needs. It is a pretty slick mvc style python web stack. Really is easy to use, and very quick to develop in. I will say that the ORM layer is a little young so it is hard to do some simple queries, but luckly since this is throw away code we can just use native sql.
Tkinter is probably going to be the solution you can use quickest. Its API is simple and straight-forward, and you probably already have it installed.
As the other 2 classic Python GUI options have been given already, I feel duty bound to suggest PyQt :)
Using QT Designer I've found it much simpler than TKInter to get some basic GUIs up and running. Build your GUI up in a WYSIWYG way, then hook it up to the back-end logic. I've also found that the large amount of C++ help on QT available on the interent usually translates more or less directly across to PyQt. The resources available for TKInter are IMO pretty obtuse, and simply stop as soon as you want to do anything more interesting than Hello World. YMMV.
The Rapid GUI Programming with Python and QT book is a fantastic resource. Had me programming real applications in no time.
What are the usable tools?
I am aware of wxformbuilder and wxGlade, but none of them seems to be complete yet.
Here are a few of the most popular wxPython related GUI builders:
Boa Constructor (mostly dead)
wxGlade
wxFormBuilder
XRCed
wxDesigner (not FOSS)
Dabo - one of their videos shows a way to interactively design an app...
I personally just use a Python IDE to hand code my applications. My current favorite IDE is Wing.
I've been looking for them too and sadly I've come up empty handed. I used to like Boa Constructor and PythonCard back in the day but both projects seem to have stalled. There is an attempt to get PythonCard going again # http://trac.medianix.org/wiki/Pycard ; the site was down when I checked last but the mailing list seemed moderately active. Dabo's another actively-developed option.
afaik... none. I'll follow the answers to see if someone has one and try it of course but I'm not convinced this will be THAT useful. When using wxPython, you usually work with sizers (at least I think the results are better) so you don't really need to "place" the controls on the frame and I think a GUI "design" would be longer to do. The only part where I think it could have some interest is to fill atributes for the controls but a good auto-complete with wx (or a good cheat sheet or a "template class" with all the options you use) solves the problem in my opinion. I stopped seeking for a GUI designer for wx after trying Pydev that auto-completes wx very nicely (a lot better than everything I tried before... and that's a lot!).
I want something simple in order to experiment/hack. I've created a lot interpreters/compilers for c and I just want something simple. A basic BASIC :D
If you don't know any (I've done my google search...), yacc/bison is the only way?
Thx
PLY is a great parser-creation library for Python. It has a simple BASIC interpreter as one of its example scripts. You could start there.
None of these listed in TheFreeCountry are acceptable? None of them are in Python, but I should think that starting from XBLite might be more helpful than starting from Yacc/Bison/PLY.
Also, Vb2py might be a better starting position than PLY.
If you must go the PLY route, however, consider the MOLE Basic grammar as a starting point rather than trying to roll your own from scratch.
I also don't know a basic interpreter under ruby, but given enough time and interest ruby easily "supports" writing an interpreter for any language you like: Agile DSL Development
in Ruby . I must admit that this approach comes with some investment of time. :(
At the end of the presentation are some links to further readings regarding DSLs.
You may wish to also examine the Parrot virtual machine which, according to wikipedia today, has some BASIC support.
a miniBasic in ruby is available here. Rockit seems WAY more fun that racc.
There is pybasic (python basic), rockit-minibasic (rubybasic).
To make these able to use the gui, then one has to develop extensions with kivy and shoes gui toolkits for pybasic and rockit-minibasic respectively and similarly prima gui for perlbasic if ever exists.