topic Re: Intellisense in Python IDLE in Python Questions

Intellisense in Python IDLE

SanthoshBalakrishnapillai — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:56:08 GMT

Intellisense in available in Python IDLE 2.5 or not.How can I get that.If it is not available in Python IDLE how can I get Python win for arcgis 10. Thanks

Re: Intellisense in Python IDLE

CoryMacNeil1 — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:44:43 GMT

IDLE doesn't really have intellisense. If you start creating a Python script and only use the line:

import arcpy

Now if you run your code from IDE, you will be able to get some intellisense regarding arcpy, for instance:

mxd = arcpy.

I will then get info about which methods are available (but it is slow). However, if I finish my code to refer to a map document and then want to use the reference to the map document it will not provide the available methods regarding the map document. But, if I run the code again after referencing a map document I can then get "intellisense" for the mxd variable.

Obviously, this will not be acceptable. There are other IDE's out there such as PythonWin, Wing and PyScripter to name a few. PythonWin is not installed by default, see this thread about the location of the installers for it. You can download PyScripter from here.

I hope this helps.
Cory

Re: Intellisense in Python IDLE

BartHound — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:07:36 GMT

don't forget about pyDev, and Netbeans.

Re: Intellisense in Python IDLE

ChrisMathers — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:02:48 GMT

I agree. Just get an actual IDE. IDLE is nice to start out with but if you plan to get into this a bit more you should get something like pyDev