Re:Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [a...
by crdoconnor on Thursday February 23, 2017 @10:07AM
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>Pycharm tries really hard to paper over the lack of static typing in Python.
It does and IMO this is the wrong approach. I usually fire off a test and use that the push the code to the line I'm interested in, at which point I fire up IPython.embed().
That gives you perfect code completion, instant variable inspection (including instant docstring and code lookup) and the ability to execute and inspect on the fly.
You can then fairly easily copy and paste the lines you want back to the text editor.
IMO that's a step ahead of just having autocomplete in an IDE.
It does and IMO this is the wrong approach. I usually fire off a test and use that the push the code to the line I'm interested in, at which point I fire up IPython.embed().
That gives you perfect code completion, instant variable inspection (including instant docstring and code lookup) and the ability to execute and inspect on the fly.
You can then fairly easily copy and paste the lines you want back to the text editor.
IMO that's a step ahead of just having autocomplete in an IDE.