From the course: Learning ArcGIS Python Scripting (2018)
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Compose and run scripts in an IDE - ArcGIS Tutorial
From the course: Learning ArcGIS Python Scripting (2018)
Compose and run scripts in an IDE
- [Instructor] Use an IDE to compose and run scripts. An IDE is an integrated development environment. It's a software for writing executing and debugging code. An IDE looks a lot like a text editor but it's different because it understands a programming language and gives you some help in writing the code. There are many IDEs for writing Python scripts. Some of them include PyCharm, PythonWin, IDLE and many others. You can pick whichever one you like when you start coding your own scripts. Some people choose a particular IDE because their company standardizes on that IDE. IDLE, Pythons integrated development and learning environment is distributed with ArcGIS. And therefore it is the default for writing scripts in ArcGIS world. It's an open source software it can be downloaded for free, but again, it's included with ArcMap, it's installed automatically with ArcMap. You find it in all apps under the ArcGIS group. IDLE has a shell window, this one, that can interpret Python commands…
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