Wing Tips: Helpful Hints for Wing Python IDE
These articles contain tips, tricks, and helpful hints for Wing Python IDE users. Some articles focus on Wing Pro while others describe features found also in Wing Personal. You can subscribe to receive regular updates by email or RSS.
Editor Basics
Navigate Python code more quickly with goto-definition, find uses, and project-wide search. Read more
Get around Python code quickly with Wing's code index menus and source browser. Read more
Find files and symbols quickly in Wing by typing a fragment of their names. Read more
Open project files quickly in Wing Personal and Wing Pro by typing a fragment of a file name or file path. Read more
Use multiple concurrent selections in Wing Python IDE to apply a single edit to several parts of your code at once. Read more
Learn how to use quickly select logical units of Python code from the keyboard in Wing, as a way to make some editing tasks faster. Read more
Learn about some of the less obvious auto-editing operations in Wing Pro, starting with the creation and management of blocks in Python code. Read more
Learn about Wing Pro's auto-invocation feature, which makes writing Python code that calls functions and methods easier and less prone to errors. Read more
Learn some more of the auto-editing operations in Wing Pro, for PEP 8 compliant auto-spacing, correcting out-of-order typing, and changing the type of quotes around a string. Read more
Learn how to use Turbo Completion mode in Wing Pro to speed up typing in Python code Read more
Projects and Environment
Learn how to create a Wing project for an existing or newly created Python code base, with an existing or newly created Python environment. Read more
Learn how to work with virtualenv, pipenv, and Anaconda Python environments from Wing Python IDE. Read more
Learn how to view, add, remove, and update Python packages in your Python environment from Wing Pro. Read more
Wing supports launching modules from the IDE in a way that simulates running "python -m" on the command line. Read more
Debugging
This is a roadmap explains the configuration options available in Wing Pro for different debugging scenarios on local or remote systems, on containers, with code launched from the IDE or from the outside, with or without a virtual environment, and optionally multi-threaded and/or multi-process. Read more
Wing Pro's debugger has the ability to display an overlay with the value of all visible symbols in the editor. Read more
Wing Pro includes an array and data frame viewer that can be used to efficiently display slices of very large data objects in the debugger. Read more
Wing's Python debugger can move the program counter, so you can go back and try code again in order to find the original cause of a bug, without having to restart the debug process. Read more
Wing's Python debugger allows you to set conditional breakpoints to isolate specific cases that need debugging or for which you want to write new code interactively. Read more
This useful trick lets you find the point of definition of symbols in source code, while working with those symbols at runtime in Wing's integrated Python Shell and Wing Pro's Debug Console. Read more
Code Warnings and Refactoring
Learn how to use refactoring in Wing Pro to quickly rename symbols and attributes in Python code. Read more
Learn how to quickly move functions, methods, classes, and other symbol definitions around in Python code, using refactoring in Wing Pro. Read more
Learn how to quickly create new functions and methods out of existing blocks of Python code, using refactoring in Wing Pro. Read more
Learn how to quickly introduce a new variable based on existing Python code, using refactoring in Wing Pro. Read more
Learn how to use the code warnings system in Wing Pro to find errors in Python code. Read more
Learn how to use external code quality checkers like Pylint, pep8, and mypy with Wing Pro's code warnings system. Read more
Wing added the ability to manually or automatically reformat Python code using the Black or YAPF code formatting tools. Read more
Customization
Presentation Mode in Wing Python IDE temporarily magnifies the entire user interface, so the screen can be read more easily during meetings or talks. Read more
A look at how to quickly switch between light and dark mode and the options for color configuration in Wing Python IDE. Read more
Remote Development
Learn how to use Wing Pro to develop, test, and debug Python code running on a remote host, virtual machine, or container. Read more
Support for Specific Frameworks and Packages
Learn how to use Wing 8 to develop, test, and debug Python code running inside Docker containers. Read more
Learn how to use Wing Pro to develop and debug containerized Python code that is managed by Docker Compose. Read more
Learn how to use Wing Python IDE to interactively develop and debug Python code designed for the Matplotlib numerical and scientific plotting library. Read more
Learn how to use Wing for rapid development and debugging of Python code running under the Flask web framework. Read more
Learn how to use Wing Pro to remotely develop, test, and debug Python code running on an AWS instance. Read more
Learn how to use Wing Pro to remotely debug AWS-hosted Python services that are launched from outside of the IDE. Read more
Learn how to use Wing with PyXLL to develop and debug Python extensions for Microsoft Excel. Read more
Extending Wing's Functionality
This installment of our multi-part series on extending Wing introduces how to write simple Python scripts to add custom functionality to the IDE. Read more
In this installment of our multi-part series on extending Wing with Python scripts, we explain how to set up a project for developing and debugging your extension scripts. Read more
In this installment of our multi-part series on extending Wing with Python scripts, we take a look at how extension scripts can collect arguments from the user. Read more
In the final installment of this multi-part series on extending Wing with Python scripts, we take a closer look at the scripting API and write a more complex script. Read more
Older Unmaintained Wingtips
Learn how to create and use Anaconda environments with your Wing projects. Read more
Learn how to work with virtualenv Python from Wing Python IDE. Read more
Learn how to use multiple selections in Wing Python IDE to avoid repetitive code editing tasks. Read more
Learn how to configure Wing to work with the Anaconda Python distribution for data science, machine learning, and other applications that use many third party packages. Read more
Learn how to use Wing Pro to develop, test, and debug Python Code running in Vagrant containers. Read more
Wing Pro is a Python IDE that can be used to develop, test, and debug Python code running inside Windows Subsystem for Linux. Read more
Wing Pro is a Python IDE that can be used to develop, test, and debug a website on a remote server, VM, or other system where an IDE cannot be installed. Read more
Wing Pro can be used to develop and debug Python code written for Jupyter Notebooks. Read more
Wing 6 makes Wing Personal free, streamlines the process for applying for free Wing Pro licenses, and introduces an annual licensing option. Read more
Wing Pro 6 introduces easy to configure and use remote Python development, where the IDE can edit, test, debug, search, and manage files as if they were stored on the same machine as the IDE. Read more
Wing Python IDE version 6 improves and extends support for multiple selections on the editor, making it easier to select and then apply edits to a number of selections at once. Read more
Wing Python IDE can remotely debug code running on a Raspberry Pi, so you can quickly isolate and fix bugs by setting breakpoints, stepping through code, and inspecting data. Read more
Wing Pro 5.1 added a Find Symbol in Project feature that lets you navigate to the point of definition of a symbol defined anywhere in your project by typing a fragment matching the name. Read more
Learn how to use Wing Pro's Debug Probe to debug and write new Python code interactively. Read more
Wing IDE 5.1 adds multi-process debugging and automatic child process debugging. Read more
Learn how to move the program counter while debugging Python code in Wing IDE Pro. Read more
Wing IDE 5.0.9 adds the ability to set an active range of code in the editor. This makes it easier to reevaluate edited sections of code in the Python Shell or Debug Probe. Read more
This new screencast takes you on a tour of some of the features in Wing IDE Professional version 5. Read more
How to get the most out of Wing IDE Pro's auto-completer and source assistant for Python. Read more
Learn how to use Wing IDE Pro's advanced auto-editing features to speed up writing and modifying Python code. Read more
Other older articles are available at wingware.blogspot.com.
