[Pythonmac-SIG] IDE that doesn't look awful?

[Robin Dunn]

Christopher Barker wrote:
> Joe Strout wrote:
>> I'd heard good things about Wing IDE (including that it was written 
>> with wxPython,
> 
> I think it was written with pyGTK, actually, which explains why it's an 
> X app, and why it's "awful" on a Mac.

Given that I'm Mr. wxPython I'm sometimes a bit embarrassed to admit 
that I've been using WingIDE more and more lately (transitioning from 
Emacs) instead of one of the wx-based editors.  Almost every day I cuss 
at it for being so butt ugly on Mac and not being native, but I still 
keep on using it because I haven't yet found anything that comes close 
to beating it on features and functionality.  The auto-complete is very 
thorough and useful, the debugger is excellent, and there is a ton of 
other goodness in there too.  It makes working on a *very* large code 
base that was 99.5% written by someone besides me *much* easier to deal 
with than it would have been otherwise, so I just grit my teeth and live 
with the ugliness.

P.S.  If anybody can convince Wingware to sponsor a wx port of WingIDE I 
know somebody who would be willing to work on it.  ;-)

-- 
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org  Java give you jitters?  Relax with wxPython!