[Qt-creator] 'Proper' Python support

[EXT Eike Ziller]

> On 10. Jun 2018, at 10:06, Christian Gagneraud <chgans at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> With the upcoming "Python for Qt" release, is there any plan to have a
> more advanced python editor?
> 
> There's a "Python Language Server" available[1], an implementation of
> the "Language Server Protocol" [2] for python.

We currently work on support for the language server protocol.
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-20284
It doesn’t really solve all problems with supporting another language ((semantic) highlighting, building & running, etc),
but should make supporting additional languages much easier.

> I personally hate companies like Palentir [3], and i'm not a Microsoft
> fanboy (to say the least) , but these open source component could be
> useful to QtCreator.
> 
> Visual Code is the new "Revolution" according to Microsoft fanboys
> (trying to mimick Apple fanboys), where does QtCreator stand in this?

I don’t understand what your question is.

> I'm working in a 98% MS environment, but every developer has a Linux
> VM. Yet, what is the first thing they install in their Linux VM?
> Visual Code! What drive me nuts, is that they all have a Qt License,
> yet they don't give a sh*t about QtC, way better to require a MS
> Visual Studio license as well... But i'm diverging.
> 
> The only reason i can think of, is that they are completely
> brain-washed and addicted to MS technologies, to a point that they
> won't even look at something else, even if it's better.
> 
> Now when it comes to python, Visual Code is actually way better than
> QtCreator, thanks to their "Language Server Protocol". It's actually a
> brilliant idea [4]
> 
> I do lot of C++, Qt and Python, often, but not always mixed together.
> I can't wait for the new "Python for Qt" and I would love QtCreator to
> have way better support for python, in the mean time emacs is still my
> editor of choice, but i'm seriously thinking about using Visual Code
> for editing python.

As a side note there seems to be a language server support lib + python support for emacs too:
https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode
https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-python
I haven’t checked if and how they work though.

Br, Eike

> 
> I use as well the Squish tool [5], a test framework, driven in python,
> to test Qt/C++ applications. But I cannot use QtCreator, I have to use
> an Eclipse based IDE... Some of my colleagues don't use the so called
> "Squis IDE", instead they prefer a mix of command line and ... Visual
> Code. Again!
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Chris
> 
> [1] https://github.com/palantir/python-language-server
> [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies#Controversies
> [4] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
> [5] https://www.froglogic.com/squish/
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