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Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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I use emacs for all my coding work (multiple languages) and am very satisfied with it. I have tried Komodo and a couple of my colleagues at work swear by it--it's a bit bloated for my taste, but probably I am kind of old fashioned... (btw: same holds true for Eclipse--imho at least). It would probably be nice to know what experience you've had with emacs and why you are looking for an ide, then people might be able t…

There is also external completion for Emacs with rope library ( http://rope.sourceforge.net/ ), which also provides some refactorings. It is very useful, but not always stable.

Thanks -- I will give it a try (since I am too stupid to get pycomplete working...)

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Wing and Komodo IDE are great if you get somebody to shell out the cash. I think everybody should have a main editor, that may or may not be vim or emacs, but also learn one of these, since they will always be available on whatever platform you're forced to use.

http://praisecurseandrecurse.blogspot.com/2008/04/abysmal-st...

http://www.protocolostomy.com/2008/04/28/ubuntu-804-and-pyth...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=130429

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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I'd check out the free version of WingWare first. It feels not so polished in terms of the GUI, but the features/integration with Python in general is pretty sweet. What are your complaints/missing features of some of the other things you've used?

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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I have minimal experience with Wingware, but have found it impressive and am spending more time with it. Previously I've done all my Python in IDLE and Textpad. I'm also going to give Fedora a shot. As bloated as it is, free is nice.

*Eclipse
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