Re: Beginner Python dev env

[Rick Leir <rleir [ at ] leirtech [ dot ] com>]

<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">vscode?&nbsp; &nbsp;It's not what I use, but everyone else seems to.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Or pycharm, or jupyter.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>
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        On Thursday, 5 March 2026 at 07:33, Aaron Wilcox via linux &lt;linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org&gt; wrote:<br>
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    <p>I've got a coworker who's stuck a toe into Python to do a data
      analysis script, and they need to debug some odd behaviour that
      pops up on occasions. Right now they're just using Notepad++ to
      write the script and running it from the CLI, so no debug
      capability. Does anyone have any recommendations for a FOSS
      development environment? Needs to have a debugging tool that will
      show let them step through the script and see what each line is
      doing to their data, and be simple to set up and use.</p>
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