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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.

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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I've tried Wing personally, but it was just too much pretty but superfluous GUI stuff all over the place.

As a primary editor I use xemacs21 in full-screen mode with everything extra disabled; I typically have 2-3 instances running (due to parallel development in multiple branches) with 200 open buffers.

I'd love to pay $$$$ for a GUI that would make more efficient but I sppose I may be stuck with xemacs forever.

Ropemacs was the last impressive thing I saw, but it was a bit buggy. I don't seem to have need for refactoring, tag search is enough for me to navigate and dabbrev-expand based on other buffers contents is usually enough for me.

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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post #3

Komodo is supposed to be pretty nice, although I haven't used it myself (happy with vim): http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/feature_showc...

I use Komodo Edit, and I love it. It has everything I need, is customizable, and was recently Open Sourced. I would be hard pressed to switch to something else.

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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I must admit, I have a hard time knowing what I'd need an ide for when I can use emacs and have a python interpreter running inside it. I haven't worked on any python projects large enough to make me need help navigating the code though.
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