- Pylab - Nicotine patch for MATLAB junkies. Plot data better than in matlab. Save to SVG. Annotate in Inkscape. Publish in paper.
- winpdb - Python's weak point is debugging. This helps a bit
- ipython - Good old interactive command line. With autocompletion! (hit tab) Don't forget to download pyreadline too
- pygtk - For GUIs. Haven't used it much, but it is nice.
Python's context managers are a very neat way of handling code that needs a teardown once you are done. Python objects have do have a destructor method ( __del__ ) called right before the last instance of the object is about to be destroyed. You can do a teardown there. However there is a lot of fine print to the __del__ method. A cleaner way of doing tear-downs is through Python's context manager , manifested as the with keyword. class CrushMe: def __init__(self): self.f = open('test.txt', 'w') def foo(self, a, b): self.f.write(str(a - b)) def __enter__(self): return self def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb): self.f.close() return True with CrushMe() as c: c.foo(2, 3) One thing that is important, and that got me just now, is error handling. I made the mistake of ignoring all those 'junk' arguments ( exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb ). I just skimmed the docs and what popped out is that you need to return True or...
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