Editor

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 5 min

Questions

• What are the expected features in an IDE editor?

Objectives

• Understand the purpose of the features of a code editor

Editor integrates tools for an easy to use, efficient editing experience.

The Editor’s usual key features include:

• Syntax highlighting (pygments);
• Real-time code and style analysis (pyflakes and pycodestyle);
• On-demand completion, calltips and go-to-definition features (rope and jedi);
• Function/Class browser, horizontal and vertical splitting.

Expected Benefits

• Less time and effort
• Enforce coding standards
• Project management

Let’s Write our first version of Bingo Cards generator

Let use a dictionary whose keys will be the letters B, I, N, G and O. The values will be the lists of five numbers that appear under each letter. Remember the “Free” in the center space.

Things to pay attention to:

• Static code analysis
• Syntax coloring
• Integrated help [CTRL+I]
• Panel layout

Batteries included

random package of python’s standard library has a sample function that returns k unique random elements from a population sequence or set.

Key Points

• A code editor fundamentally reduces your cognitive load

• There is no need to use an IDE. It is just much harder work not to. (David Arno, Stackoverflow)