Sat, 16 Feb 2008
Python IDE wanted
Dear Lazyweb,
is there a nice free and open Python IDE available? I was impressed by Eclipse's Java support when I had to code a project for my studies but I hate the language thoroughly. I also had a quick glance at NetBeans IDE which provides a Ruby IDE. It looked really nice with working code completion and refactoring support.
Now I was a Ruby fanboy some time ago and switched to Python partly for (a bit) more performance and also because of better bindings to various libraries. Until now I coded Python in vim, but well, an IDE would be nice and I wonder why a language with as much drive as Python has lacks a nice free IDE.
I also had to work with Visual Studio 2008 recently to port Gobby to Windows with proper C++ exceptions. The IntelliSense feature (their marketing speak for code completion) worked quite well with the given C++ code, but that IDE just got into my way. (Apart from the compiler having a different opinion about what real C++ is like, in contrast to gcc's opinion.)
As my pyblosxom (heh) still lacks a comment plugin please mail me suggestions (if you have some) to my debian.org address.
Uh, and a nice sticker: