Python Tools for Visual Studios

Program in python, but miss that MS Visual Studios feel?  Yes?  Well I have the answer for you here.

PyTools is:

Python Tools for Visual Studio is a free & open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft's Technical Computing Group. PTVS enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio to build Python code using either CPython or IronPython and adds new features such as using High Performance Computing clusters to scale your code. Together with one of the standard distros, you can turn Visual Studio into a powerful Technical Computing IDE...

Want it to work with ArcPy? Check this out.

PythonWin and Windows XP

When I reformatted my hard drive the other day, I didn't think installing pythonwin would be such a hassle, but it was.

Apparently Microsoft has deprecated some libraries in later versions of its dot NET framework. In order to solve the missing dll problem that you might encounter, go here: http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32
and download the dlls posted on this site. Place them in the ..\windows\system32 directory.


Pythonwin should now work.