Some users want us to formalize the downvote policy in a precise rule, but we don't have a precise rule. We see this a lot, for example, in programming language debates. For example, downvoting a comment that says 2+2=5 is ok (unless it was quoting Dostoevsky!) But downvoting a substantive comment merely because you don't like the same things as the author is not ok. (Perhaps the people who think this are mistakenly applying the rule from Reddit, a much better-known site.) But that doesn't mean just any kind of downvoting is ok. There has never been a rule against downvoting for disagreement on HN. But for me, because I spend most of my developer hours in Visual Studio, PTVS is perfect.Thanks for helping to improve HN! We need all the help we can get. Or if there even is a most-common integrated editor. In addition to these three features, the debugging mode in Visual Studio was nice too.īecause I’m only a casual user of Python, I don’t know what the industry standard integrated editor is in Python-world. Third, the auto-complete feature called IntelliSense really helps for library function names. (Important because indentation is syntactically significant in Python). Second, PTVS in VS automatically indents when appropriate. I was surprised at how much difference this made. First, the editor colors keywords, string literals, parameters, and so on. Now, to be honest, PTVS wasn’t earth-shattering, but three things made writing Python programs much easier than using Notepad. After installation, using PTVS was easy and intuitive, although part of this ease-of-use is probably due to my years of experience with Visual Studio. I am always fearful of installing third-party tools because if my system gets messed up it can be very painful to recover. The installation was quick, easy, simple, and trouble-free. Let me cut to the chase and say I was very impressed by PTVS. In essence, PTVS allows you to edit and run Python programs (OK, “scripts” if you want to get technical) in the Visual Studio program. I hate the name but really like the tool. But I decided to try out the Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS). There’s something satisfying about using the simplest editor available. Until recently, I had always programmed scripting languages using the plain old Notepad editor. For me, Python is one of those good languages. Many of my colleagues believe that some languages just “have the right feel” to them. I do the majority of my software development using the C# language, but I also use C, C++, Perl, JavaScript, and others, including Python.
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