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Re: Ask HN: What Python IDE do you use?

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Post by julius_geezer » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 2:27 PM UTC

I use emacs, and almost always write for Windows. If I need a GUI, I use PythonCard.

Re: Ask HN: What Python IDE do you use?

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Post by jvenable » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 3:10 PM UTC

I live inside WingIDE Pro(/Windows/wxPython/Django/) - it is the only IDE I have used that will reliably debug multi threaded apps and wxPython. We have hundreds of Python components in our product (financial industry) and Wing makes it easy to manage (or at least as easy as possible). The company fixes problems quickly (I have reported a few and they fixed all of them within a reasonable time frame). For commercial Python development it is as close to perfect as I have found. Not cheap, but well worth it...

Re: Ask HN: What Python IDE do you use?

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Post by cool-RR » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 3:12 PM UTC

jvenable wrote: post #12

I live inside WingIDE Pro(/Windows/wxPython/Django/) - it is the only IDE I have used that will reliably debug multi threaded apps and wxPython. We have hundreds of Python components in our product (financial industry) and Wing makes it easy to manage (or at least as easy as possible). The company fixes problems quickly (I have reported a few and they fixed all of them within a reasonable time frame). For commercial…

I love Wing too. Now, how is $180 for the Pro version not cheap?

Re: Ask HN: What Python IDE do you use?

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Post by bigwally » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 3:22 PM UTC

Notepad++ seems to work pretty well on MS windows. Can't really say it's any better than a lot of other editors out there.

Tried Eclipse and it feels like bloatware.

I would really like to find some middle ground between notepad++ and eclipse.

Re: Ask HN: What Python IDE do you use?

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Post by jvenable » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 4:47 PM UTC

cool-RR wrote: post #13

jvenable wrote: post #12

I live inside WingIDE Pro(/Windows/wxPython/Django/) - it is the only IDE I have used that will reliably debug multi threaded apps and wxPython. We have hundreds of Python components in our product (financial industry) and Wing makes it easy to manage (or at least as easy as possible). The company fixes problems quickly (I have reported a few and they fixed all of them within a reasonable time frame). For commercial…

I love Wing too. Now, how is $180 for the Pro version not cheap?

You are right - for what it delivers $180 is more than reasonable. Unfortunately people tend to compare it to the free IDE's. Of course, Wing is free if you are working on an opensource project.

Re: Ask HN: What Python IDE do you use?

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Post by cawhitworth » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 7:50 PM UTC

Eclipse with PyDev with a Vi emulator (can't remember which one offhand). Having been something of an Eclipse skeptic in the past (despite being a Visual Studio devotee) I have to say I'm really quite impressed with it. It certainly makes navigating larger Python projects somewhat easier. Eclipse certainly seems no worse than VS for bloat or memory usage - although I guess that's not saying much :)

That said, if I'm just knocking out a single script or something, I'll just drop straight into vim.

(Oh, on Windows, almost exclusively)

Re: Ask HN: What Python IDE do you use?

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Post by BerislavLopac » Sat, Jan 15, 2011, 8:03 PM UTC

ActiveState Komodo on both Windows (7) and Ubuntu. I also plan to use it when I get a Mac, unless I run into something better there. :)

Re: Ask HN: What Python IDE do you use?

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Post by sharkey » Sun, Jan 16, 2011, 11:59 PM UTC

Been using Wing IDE for a couple of years now, just upgraded to the new one. It works well for me ...