Coding Basics: Python in Visual Studio
Python on Windows with Visual Studio
Whilst I’m an OSX and Linux fan, Windows is a key operating system in any enterprise and developing network applications in a Windows environment is also an important topic to cover off. Visual Studio (VS) is a Windows IDE (Integrated Development Environment) which will also soon be available for OSX (at the time of writing, it isn’t released). Whilst I’ve brushed over this previously, this post is a quick guide on how to setup a very easy to use environment to play with Python. This is not however an in depth tool chain guide. This is a 101 post but will be enough for most people to get to grips with Python who use Windows. Let’s face it, you don’t really want to be sitting on the command line doing this do you and Eclipse is not to everyone’s taste, especially if you have prior experience coding with .net for instance.
- Install the free version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio found here
- Install Python 3.x (or 2.x depending on your reasons) found here
- Install the Python tools for Visual Studion found here
I install both Python 2.x and 3.x as you Continue reading