The IDE question
A common question regards the best IDE for Python development. The short answer is that the IDE choice doesn't matter at all. The number of development environments that support Python is vast.
All the examples in this book show interactive examples from the Python >>> prompt. Running examples interactively makes a profound statement. Well-written Python should be simple enough to run from the command line.
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We should be able to demonstrate a design at the >>> prompt.
Exercising code from the >>> prompt is an important quality test for Python design complexity. If the classes or functions are too complex, then there's no easy way to exercise it from the >>> prompt. For some complex classes, we may need to provide appropriate mock ...
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