Python and IDLE

[JMan]

Hello

I cannot run IDLE as I get the error saying that it 'cannot import TK please ensure that it is installed'. I have always understood that TKinter was the default python GUI library.

Now does anyone know of a python editor that works under PCBSD?

At the moment I have to edit the file in a text editor and then right click on the file and open with python - or run it from the command line to get debugging info - but an integrated programming editor would be nice

Any ideas?

Regards
JMan

[TerryP]

Didn't know Python had standard GUI now, but you should be able to install the x11-toolkits/py-tkinter bindings form ports or pkg

My suggests for programming editors are usually Vim, Emacs, Kate, jEdit, KDevelop, or Eric in case of Python.

I like Kate because I have a fine editor with a file browser and Console built in. So its instant access to gcc, javac, python, irb, perl e.t.c. (Most programmers editors should be the same way). Sort of an IDE without the IDE, Emacs and Vim much the same with the 'usual' interface styles.

[JMan]

Hey it worked - thanks for that - I wonder why it didn't include the TKinter library in the first place ... check this out ..

http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter

Anyway it worked. I have seen that there is an editor called Stani's python editor and I believe it is in the ports system somewhere as soon as I find it I will give it a try - BTW is there an easy way to search the ports tree?

Cheers
JMan

[dracheflieger]

In a terminal, su to root and

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/psearch && make install clean && rehash

and then

psearch stani

and it will return

editors/spe               Stani's Python Editor

[TerryP]

psearch is bloody awesome, I keep a copy of an old version of that python script on my USB stick hehe.