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Raspberry Pi Geany Editor

The Geany editor is an excellent environment for the Python programmer.

Here are just some of the reasons why:

Geany is a lightweight editor, so ideal for the Raspberry Pi
Geany is easy to setup and use, yet offers many customisation options
Geany understands Python syntax and colour-codes the source code
Geany checks your code for syntax errors before it runs
Geany runs your program with a single mouse click
Geany understands the syntax of many other programming languages

Your Raspberry Pi image may already include Geany. If not don't worry, it's easily installed.

Install Geany

Just open a new LXTerminal window and type the following command:

sudo apt-get install geany

Fix Geany

By default Geany uses the 'xterm' program to execute your program. Unfortunately, some Raspberry Pi images do not have the 'xterm' program installed.

To fix this problem select Geany's Edit->Preferences menu option, then select the 'Tools' tab on the left. Now change the 'Terminal:' setting to the one below:

/usr/bin/lxterminal

Press the 'Save' button to keep your changes.

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