Pythonology

Python is an amazing programming language that makes software development productive and fun. Python is open source, was created by a community of thousands of developers world-wide, and is used by about 14% of all programmers today. These are my thoughts as a user, advocate, co-author of an IDE for Python, and a director of the Python Software Foundation.

Monday, October 01, 2007

Wing IDE 3.0 released

Wingware just released version 3.0 final of its integrated development environment for Python. New features include multi-threaded debugging, hover tips with debug data values, auto-completion in the Python Shell and Debug Probe, auto-updating projects, a unit testing tool, better external command integration options, and a few other things.

One significant/interesting addition is support for Stackless Python out of the box. This very suddenly became one of our top-requested feature as game developers started using Stackless for their online game servers.

We've also released Wing 101, which is a free scaled back version designed for teaching entry level programming courses.

Details are of course at http://wingware.com.