Question

I’m just starting out learning python with GEdit plus various plugins as my IDE.

Visual Studio/F# has a feature which permits the highlighting on a piece of text in the code window which then, on a keypress, gets executed in the F# console.

Is there a similar facility/plugin which would enable this sort of behaviour for GEdit/Python? I do have various execution type plugins (Run In Python,Better Python Console) but they don’t give me this particular behaviour – or at least I’m not sure how to configure them to give me this. I find it useful because in learning python, I have some test code I want to execute particular individual lines or small segments of code (rather then a complete file) to try and understand what they are doing (and the copy/paste can get a bit tiresome)

… or perhaps there is a better way to do code exploration?

Many thx

Simon

Answer 1

To answer your second question, and hopefully guide you in a direction you’ll be happier with, I think you ought to consider trying some different editors. There are many with more powerful code exploration features than GEdit has. Check out this post:

What IDE to use for Python?