Cleanest way to run/debug python programs in windows

Question

Python for Windows by default comes with IDLE, which is the barest-bones IDE I\'ve ever encountered. For editing files, I\'ll stick to emacs, thank you very much.

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Answer 1

I replaced cmd with Cygwin and Poderosa. May be a little overkill though, if the only problem you have with cmd is that it's a pain to resize.

Although you use Emacs instead of Vim, so I guess you're into overkill... ;-)

Answer 2

However, I want to run programs in some other shell than the crappy windows command prompt, which can't be widened to more than 80 characters.

Click on the system box (top-left) in the command prompt and click properties. In the layout tab you can set the width and height of the window and the width and height of the screen buffer. I recommend setting the screen buffer height to 9999 so you can scroll back through a long output.

Answer 3

Wing IDE is awesome. They also have a free version.