On Nov 16, 5:09 am, sturlamolden <sturlamol...@yahoo.no> wrote: > On 15 Nov, 18:09, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > There had been some discussion on IDE. But I'm not sure what pros and > > cons of each choice. Current, I'm using vim and ctags. > > > Could somebody give some advices on choosing the best IDE for me? > > There is a plug-in to develop (amd debug) Python using MS Visual > Studio. It works with IronPython and CPython. > > There is the PyDev plug-in for Eclipse. > > There is Komodo from ActiveState. > > There is KDevelop in KDE4. > > Which is better? I don't know. > > My impression is that Python development does noe need an IDE like > e.g. C++ development do. There is no build process, which takes the > major advantage of the IDE away. I am fine with a editor like IDLE or > Kate.
I'd like to offer the group the anecdote of the great Resolver IDE migration. Developers at Resolver, where I work, choose their own IDE. Being developers, that meant every single person chose a different one. We had them all. Which turned out, slightly unexpectedly, to be just fine. We pair on all production code. So this meant we all spent a lot of time sitting at each other's desks. We soon all became pretty familiar with each other's environments - there's nothing like 8 hours a day of hands-on usage, coupled with sitting right next to a bone-fide expert to get you up to speed pretty quick. I even learned a little Emacs, holy cow! Occasionally, after seeing the details of how well some other IDE worked, developers would switch from one to another. Then, after about a year, a curious thing happened. One by one, in entirely independent decisions, almost all developers decided to migrate to either Emacs or Vi.* Each person decided that the fancy features of their IDE wasn't as useful to them as having a flexible, powerful and lightweight editor which can easily be scripted to provide whatever ad-hoc features they need. I regard this as an example of the way pairing spreads knowledge. * I say 'most developers' - there were two notable exceptions: Michael Foord, who's prodigious contributions are legend, who likes Wing, and Will Reade, our tame brainiac, responsible for the exceedingly clever 'IronClad' open-source project, who likes the uncomplicated simplicity of TextPad. As far as I can make out, TextPad has only two features, syntax highlighting and the ability to define a 'make' command, and a regex that is used to extract filenames and line-numbers from the resulting output of that make command. These are, it turns out, sufficient to transform a program that would otherwise simply be 'Notepad' into an entirely credible development environment. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
