As "bicycle repair man integration" keeps popping up as a distinct feature of jave-based PyDev, let it be known that other IDE's also have this. For example, non-java Eric has had " bicycle repair man" integration for a very long time.
Personally, in spite of intense programming in python, I've never encountered a real need for the bicycle gimmick. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list