Wing IDE

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Wing IDE

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Developer:	Wingware
Latest release:	2.1.2-1 / August 29, 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Python IDE
License:	Commercial (Professional $179)
Website:	www.wingware.com

Wing IDE is high-quality Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Python programming language speeds development time and improves code quality with plenty of powerful code intelligence, debugging, and editor features. Wing's powerful debugging and code intelligence capabilities will turbo-charge your Python development. Wing supports web, GUI, and script development using Zope, Plone, mod python, wxPython, PyQt, PyGTK, TkInter, and many other Python packages. Wing IDE is available on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. It is written using Python and PyGTK.

1 History
2 Data
3 Features List
4 Supported Platforms
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

[edit] Data

There are two versions of this product:

Wing IDE Professional
Wing IDE Personal (omits some features)

[edit] Features List

Editor Features:

Syntax highlighting
Visual Studio style key bindings
Vi/Vim key bindings
Emacs key bindings
Brief key bindings
Block indentation
Indentation guides
Adapts to file indent style
Adapts to file EOL style
Block commenting
Rectangular and line selection
Brace matching
Visible white space
Detect and load external changes
Printing
Editor splits & tabs
Configurable Tab key
Print and Print Selection
Named bookmarks (not available in personal version)
Keyboard and command macros (not available in personal version)
Code folding (not available in personal version)

Code Intelligence Features:

Goto-definition
Source index menus
Auto-completion for Python and Extension Modules
Enhanced Auto-completion for wxPython and PyGTK
Auto-indent
Code-aware line wrapping
Error indicators
Indentation translator
Class browser (not available in personal version)
Module browser (not available in personal version)
Current file browser (not available in personal version)
Call tips & documentation (Source Assistant) (not available in personal version)

Search Features:

Basic search
Toolbar quick search
Keyboard-driven mini-search
Search in Selection
Project-wide search
Regex and wild card search
Search on disk (not available in personal version)

Debugger Features:

GUI, Web, and script debugging
Remote debugging
Exception traceback reporting
View stack and locals/globals
Detect unhandled exceptions
Support input() and raw_input()
Zope and Plone support
Integrated debug process I/O
Native console I/O
Alter debug data values
Interactive debug probe (not available in personal version)
Track values by reference (not available in personal version)
Evaluate expressions (not available in personal version)
Conditional breakpoints (not available in personal version)
Ignore-counted breakpoints (not available in personal version)
Enable/disable breakpoints (not available in personal version)
Breakpoint manager (not available in personal version)
Process attach/detach (not available in personal version)
Inspect sys.modules (not available in personal version)

Other Features:

Project Manager
Supports Python 1.5.2 and 2.0 through 2.4
Integrated Python shell
Customizable user interface
Create multiple tool instances
Graphical preferences editor
Integrated searchable documentation
Integrated feedback / bug reporting
Automatic patch / update manager
CVS Integration (not available in personal version)
Subversion Integration (not available in personal version)
Perforce Integration (not available in personal version)
Templating / Code Snippets (not available in personal version)
Extend IDE with Python Scripting (not available in personal version)
Available product source code (not available in personal version)

[edit] Supported Platforms

Wing IDE for Microsoft Windows:

Wing IDE 2.1 supports Windows 2000, XP, and 2003 Server. Windows 95, 98, and ME are not supported and will not work. Windows NT4 is not supported but may work with IE5+ installed.
Wing IDE 2.0.4 supports Windows 98 w/ IE5+, ME w/ IE5+, NT4 w/ IE5+, 2K, XP, and 2003 Server. Windows 95 is not supported.

Wing IDE for Linux/Intel:

Wing IDE 2.0.4 and 2.1 run on Linux versions with glibc2.2 or later should work (anything roughly 3 years old or newer; e.g. RedHat 7.1+, Mandrake 8.0+, SuSe 7.1+, and Debian 3.0+). On Suse, you may need to install either the gmp and python packages or install Python from source, if Python is not installed by default. On Debian, you can convert the Wing IDE RPM into a Debian friendly package using the alien module. Install alien-Package, then alien -d wingide-*.i386.rpm followed by dpkg -i wingide-*.deb. Alternatively, use the Wing IDE tar file installer.

Wing IDE for Mac OS X:

Wing IDE 2.1 runs on Mac OS X 10.3.9+. Wing IDE for OS X also requires an X11 server and Window manager. For details see OS X Quick Start Guide.
Wing IDE 2.0.4 runs on Mac OS X 10.2+. Only Python 2.2 and later are supported for Mac OS X, however version 10.3 of OS X and later come with a standard version of Python already installed.

Wing IDE for Other Platforms:

Wing IDE can be compiled from source by customers wishing to use it on other operating systems (such as Linux PPC, Free BSD, or Solaris). This requires a non-disclosure agreement.