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[http://kate-editor.org/ Kate] works well as a general editor for Python. It also recognises recognizes key words of Python and marks them in colours. Kate is a Linux KDE desktop program. Of course, it also works on gnome installations.

"Idle" is a handy simple editor that takes advantage of the interpreter features of Python. Often Idle comes with Python packages. Idle works well in Linux and other OS's, including the "dominant OS". If you install Windows version of Python, you will probably install from the same package Idle. One feature of Idle tends to confuse newcomers: Idle main window is NOT used for program writing, but for displaying the results. Notice that there is a Python tutorial, automagically installed with Idle on a Windows box. It is worth noting that the Tutorial gives quite extensive introduction into Python and is authored by the originator of Python : Guido van Rossum.

./autogen.sh make python src/grampssetup.pybuild

These lines will not For the internationalization piece to work before , you need to have installed some build-dependenciesthe translation tools. You obviously also need subversion and friends. On Debian, just run (as root) - ('''Only if Debian installs Gramps 4.0+ as Gramps version!):

yum install gnomeintltool gettext subversion rcs === Option 1: run from source repo ===Here, we use the code in gramps-common intltool glib2trunk to run Gramps. This means that compiled python files will be stored there. This is not ideal, but the easiest way to develop Gramps, as changes are immediately picked up by the code. Copy the const.py file created in build to your source directory if you want to use your source directory to work with Gramps: cp build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/gramps/gen/const.py gramps/gen/const.py python Gramps.py That is it. If you installed some dependencies of Gramps in non-default positions, you need to indicate with PYTHONPATH where then can be found, and with LD_LIBRARY_PATH where link libraries can be found. Eg, if you install GTK and spell checking from source too, you will need something like: PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib python Gramps.py === Option 2: use the build code ===Here, we use the code build in gramps-trunk/build to run Gramps. For this, do cd ~/gramps-trunk/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/ python -c 'from gramps.grampsapp import main; main()' Again, it might be needed to set with PYTHONPATH where dependencies can be found, and with LD_LIBRARY_PATH link libraries, see option 1. If you point your PYTHONPATH to the build directory, you can actually run Gramps from a random directory. Like this:  cd PYTHONPATH=~/gramps-trunk/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/ python -c 'from gramps.grampsapp import main; main()' So, more general: cd PYTHONPATH=~/gramps-trunk/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib python -c 'from gramps.grampsapp import main; main()' If the build directory is in your PYTHONPATH, you can also just execute the grampsapp.py module. So this will work too: cd ~/gramps-trunk/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/gramps PYTHONPATH=~/gramps-trunk/build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7/ python grampsapp.py or again more generally PYTHONPATH=~/gramps-trunk/build/lib.linux-devel gnomex86_64-doc2.7/:/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-utils gcc emacs gettext subversion make rcspackages/ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib python grampsapp.py '''Note''': at the time of writing, only the last, so using grampsapp.py works, as not all imports in Gramps have been converted to relative or absolute imports. This conversion will be finished by end of 2012 however.

== src gramps ==In this folder, you will find GRAMPSGramps' source code. There are a lot of subfolders, which are explained in the folowing sections.

=== srcgramps/gen ===This is GRAMPSGramps' core. It defines database classes genealogy objects (Person, Place, Note...), database classes, generic plugins, and database access :* '''srcgramps/gen/db''' : GRAMPS Database Handling* '''srcgramps/gen/lib''' : The core library of GRAMPS objects* '''srcgramps/gen/proxy''' : Proxy class for the GRAMPS databases. This is a very powerful tool used to propose a filtered view of the database : Objects which are not marked private, (not) living persons...* '''srcgramps/gen/utils''' : Common utilities for GRAMPS code (progess monitor dialog, database utilities, callbacks between UI and database code)