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mu

A small, simple editor for beginner Python programmers. Written in Python and Qt5.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.5KGitHub stars
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What it is

A small, simple editor for beginner Python programmers. Written in Python and Qt5.

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Observed mentions: 2018-07-29 14:03:16 UTC to 2018-07-29 14:45:14 UTC.

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What Hacker News says

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Looks very cool from a first glance! As it was mentioned in another comment, its hard to find a link to the source code of this, or even to get the information, whether this is open source, and what licence. (Answer: https://github.com/mu-editor/mu/, licence is GPLv3). For some people, this is some of the most important question before they would try out a new app. Also, one detail which was hard to find, but interesting for me: This is build using PyQt5. About the MacOSX package: It's about 430 MB. This is a lot for such a simple editor. Is this just because of PyQt5 which is bundled together with it? Isn't it possible to strip that down? I would have expected something like 5 MB or so. Also, another question: Is it possible to have this bundled into another existing app? E.g. I have an app where the user could write simple Python script
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s to automate something (e.g. the smart playlist logic in a music player), and I was wondering whether I can have a simple editor just inside the app. However, your licence is problematic for this usage, as my apps usually have a BSD or MIT licence or similar. Maybe consider to use LGPL?
In Code with Mu: a simple Python editor for beginner programmers

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