I've got used to SPE(editor)+WinPdb(debugger) not surprisingly of course ;-)
Concerning the free-of-charge IDE's, things might change quite a bit. You might have read this: http://groups.google.nl/group/comp.lang.python.announce/browse_thread/thread/240c000583168029/2dec4ae34efe16e2#2dec4ae34efe16e2 Feel free to wiki on http://pyxides.stani.be Stani -- http://pythonide.stani.be -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list