I need a beginners guide to setting up windows for python development

Question

I currently work with .NET exclusively and would like to have a go at python. To this end I need to set up a python development environment. I guide to this would be handy.

Answer 1

Environment?

Here is the simplest solution:

• Install Active Python 2.6. Its the Python itself, but comes with some extra handy useful stuff, like DiveintoPython chm.

• Use Komodo Edit 5. It is among the good free editor you can use for Python.

• Use IDLE. Its the best simplest short snippet editor, with syntax highlighting and auto complete unmatched by most other IDEs. It comes bundled with python.

• Use Ipython. Its a shell that does syntax highlighting and auto complete, bash functions, pretty print, logging, history and many such things.

• Install easy_install and/or pip for installing various 3rd party apps easily.

Coming from Visual Studio and .Net it will sound a lot different, but its an entirely different world.

For the framework, django works the best. Walk thro the tutorial and you will be impressed enough. The documentation rocks. The community, you have to see for yourself, to know how wonderful it is!!