Request for simple a customisable Python editor

[stephenlee]

I want to develop a simple Python program to edit source code that is
persisted in a database (memo fields).
The code to be edited is iHTML and SQL and I want syntax colouring and good
basic features including tabs for multiple 'files' and searching.
It will be a Win32 deployment.

My question is can anyone recommend a good Python editor program that I can
use as a starting point for customisation?
I'd like to base it on Scintilla and wxPython (though I really want the
easiest/fastest solution). Or does something already exist?
I prefer to keep it simple and focused on our requirements so an full
python IDE is probably not a good starting point.
The requirements are bound to grow so a good architecture is important.
Obviously I'll need source to add the required DB connectivity.

So far I have Dave Kuhlman's wxEditor and Patrick O'Brien's Py family
shortlisted.

Cheers

Steve Lee
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[Paul Clinch]

I want to develop a simple Python program to edit source code that is
persisted in a database (memo fields).
The code to be edited is iHTML and SQL and I want syntax colouring and good
basic features including tabs for multiple 'files' and searching.
It will be a Win32 deployment.

A quick check of the python package index (www.python.org/pypi)
reveals PyPE (http://pype.sourceforge.net/) an editor written in
python with wxwindows.

Also the CUTE User-friendly Text Editor is a scintilla and QT based
code editor, which can be extented using the python scripting
language.

The project page of CUTE is http://cute.sourceforge.net.

pyscinitilla provides an interface to the popular scintilla code
editor at http://wingide.com/opensource/pyscintilla .

Regards, Paul Clinch

 

[Ben Finney]

I want to develop a simple Python program to edit source code that is
persisted in a database (memo fields).
The code to be edited is iHTML and SQL and I want syntax colouring and
good basic features including tabs for multiple 'files' and searching.
It will be a Win32 deployment.

Much better would be to allow the editor used to be chosen by the user,
and supply a reasonable default. Editors are powerful beasts, and
forcing someone familiar with one to use a different one for your
application is not a user-friendly design choice.

Pick an editor that you think is a good default, but invoke it with a
command-line only, *don't* build it into your application. That way,
you can provide a customisation option to change the editor command
line, and the user can substitute their favourite editor if they choose.

 

[Steve Lee]

... PyPE (http://pype.sourceforge.net/) an editor written in

python with wxwindows.

Thanks I missed that one, seems not to be actively maintained though.

CUTE

Think I'll give QT a miss this time round

pyscinitilla

Replaced by http://sra.itc.it/people/cavada/PyScintilla2.html. Again
I'll give GKt a miss for now.

Steve

 

[Steve Lee]

Much better would be to allow the editor used to be chosen by the user,

and supply a reasonable default. Editors are powerful beasts, and
forcing someone familiar with one to use a different one for your
application is not a user-friendly design choice.

Pick an editor that you think is a good default, but invoke it with a
command-line only, *don't* build it into your application. That way,
you can provide a customisation option to change the editor command
line, and the user can substitute their favourite editor if they choose.

A nice idea and I agree that we all have our own fave editor.
However I had thought of making the opening of the data from the
database 'look' similar to opening a file which suggests tweeking the
'open' UI of an existing editor. I think your idea requires selecting
files first and then invoking the editor.

I'll give it some thought as I am not really opposed to such a method
of opening files - thanks for the idea.

Steve

 

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