There are 2 python programming environments in the ctrlX environment that have nothing to do with each other. Two different things, just use the same programming language.
1. python app of the ctrlX Runs on the ctrlX and can execute e.g. motion commands. The python app is used by the IDE app.
2. plc engineering python script Runs on the engineering PC. With this you can e.g. read and change PLC program code. There is a licenses for a python editor which makes it easier to create programs, by code completion and other help. But you do not need it. I don't have any experiance with this editor, but my experiance with the CoDeSys Python docu is: Could be much better, is is hard to understand. I got most information from examples, but even there could me more examples.
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