Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:58:51 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   SOME of the IDEs for Python KINDA help, can spot nestings fairly
   well, but I mostly just use nano in one terminal and do test runs
   from another. Something like PyCharm or Visual are kinda overkill
   most of the time.

It can't fix really mangled code but I like to run ruff to neaten up .py
files, 'ruff check' for errors and 'ruff format' to reformat. It's a
standalone or there is a VS Code extension.

Like black it is opinionated. It's configurable but the default is fine
for me. I haven't written enough Python code to develop a lot of personal
preferences like I have for C. For larger projects ruff's claim to fame is
it's fast being written in rust rather than Python like many of the
linters.

VS Code is overkill and I'm more likely to use vim for one or two Python
files but I've gotten used to using the Code extensions for the
microprocessors I play with so I tend to use it for most things. Anyway
with the vim extension the editor feels like vim.