Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by run4yourlives » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 6:58 PM UTC

dmpayton wrote: post #5

jcl wrote: 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.

Second Komodo Edit here. Although I used textmate/e (windows) and there where a few features there that I preferred over komodo

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by pchivers » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 7:01 PM UTC

I've been using Wing 101 for the last couple of months (after reading the Python IDE reviews on Jonathan Ellis' blog), and I've been fairly happy with it.

Links to the reviews:

http://spyced.blogspot.com/2005/09/review-of-6-python-ides.h...

http://spyced.blogspot.com/2006/02/pycon-python-ide-review.h...

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by dandelany » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 7:11 PM UTC

nloadholtes wrote: post #7

Eclipse with the PyDev plugin is very nice also. I'm using that on both OS X and Windows.

I'll second PyDev Eclipse. I just started a Python project after not using Python for several years, and have been fairly impressed thus far with PyDev.

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by oz » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 7:15 PM UTC

have you tried Eric? http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by benzim » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 7:24 PM UTC

jcl wrote: 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...

Komodo is the best that I've found. I like vim for editing individual files, but I prefer the mouse for jumping around a project. Komodo has decent vim key bindings and so I get the best of both worlds.

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by sb » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 7:26 PM UTC

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 to point you towards comparable/corresponding emacs features...

(e.g. my problem is the completion feature with both python modes--i just can't get it to work, which is definitely a pitty, but probably i am just too incompetent :)

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by zain » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 7:45 PM UTC

I've found it very hard to find an IDE that works properly with Django.

In particular, there seems to be no way debug code while using the Django dev server with its autoreload feature. This means that either you don't debug code, or you have to restart the Django dev server every time you make a change. Very annoying.

Also, I haven't been able to find any Eclipse/IDEA level features in a Python IDE... things like being able to ctrl+click on an object to see where it was defined, or a "Find Usages" feature.

All in all, I think there is a huge opportunity to innovate in the web IDE department. Python, RoR, and even PHP all still need a killer IDE.

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by m0shen » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 8:10 PM UTC

oz wrote: post #14

have you tried Eric? http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html

looks very promising! I look forward to checking this out.

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by martinr » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 8:38 PM UTC

I tried Komodo and PyDev, now I'm back to my favorite editor SciTe. Sufficient for me as I don't work on large Python projects.

Re: Ask HN: Professional Python IDEs?

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Post by gaius » Fri, Jul 18, 2008, 8:47 PM UTC

dmpayton wrote: post #5

jcl wrote: 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.

Another vote for Komodo Edit. Runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris and Mac, so I can use the same tool wherever I'm working (and edits files remotely too).