# MAC Python IDE

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/mac-python-ide/12082>\
**Category:** Rhino for Mac\
**Created:** [October 1, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/mac-python-ide/12082 "2014-10-01T21:41:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeff\_hammond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/jeff_hammond/32/768846_2.png) [@jeff\_hammond](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/jeff_hammond)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/mac-python-ide/12082/14 "2014-12-20T06:51:31Z")

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tbh, i don’t even know what remote debugging is supposed to offer 💩

i just got sick of the process of getting the script to run in rhino to see if it works (and doing that process a hundred times an hour)… but so far, rhino seems to tell me where the errors are happening and in many cases, why it’s happening… so that’s sweet.

here’s a pretty ch\_easy little workaround to the switching problem:

( [http://youtu.be/CGWUnuiVix0](http://youtu.be/CGWUnuiVix0) )

managing the files will need a decent game plan but i think if you have 2-3 files just for the switching/writing/copy&pasting/etc then using Duplicate(or other methods), put them in ‘real’ files when need be, it should work out ok…

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