[Chicago] IDEs

[Jon Sudlow]

I"ve used ERIC IDE for a lot of my python projects. Its lightweight and does
what I want it to do. I'm not picky, but I dont like eclipse because its so
overblown for the simple python scripts or django files I need to write.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Josh Cronemeyer
<joshuacronemeyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> Woah,
>
> hold everything.  eclim sounds awesome.  i'm downloading it right now and
> keeping my fingers crossed that it isn't the most buggy nightmarish
> frankenstein of all time.  If it works as advertised this could be very
> cool.
>
> thanks!
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Steven Githens <swgithen at mtu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Garrett Smith wrote:
>>
>>> ----- "Brian Ray" <bray at sent.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:20 AM, Allan Spale wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> +1 for Eclipse (desktop editing)
>>>>> +1 for Emacs (remote editing)
>>>>>
>>>>> I would be curious to know if there is a nice open source GUI  builder
>>>>> for Python (regardless of widget toolkit) that is not buggy.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Eclipse integration would be very nice.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I am not sure if you looked it wxPython at all. But it also has some GUI
>>>> builders that generate code or uses mozilla-ish xml to dynamically  build
>>>> gui. I used wxWidgets for some commercial products so it really is not buggy
>>>> if you know what your doing; however, it was the C++  interface. Moving to
>>>> the Python wx from there made life really easy.
>>>> If I would have gone straight to wxPython I think I would have gotten
>>>>  extremely frustrated (as many do) because the API does not really read
>>>> that easily.  QT is also really nice.
>>>>
>>>> Concerning IDE's
>>>>
>>>> +1 Komodo
>>>> +1 VIM
>>>>
>>>> I also tried Netbeans Python Beta recently which did a really good job
>>>> at some stuff; although, I unsure about how well the debugger works.  I
>>>> just did not have enough time to play around with it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> I do a lot of work on headless servers (no GUI), so I'm pretty much
>>> limited to either Emacs or VIM, or develop on the desktop and move JAR
>>> files around the network (pain) in to use Eclipse (which, IMO, has
>>> become an outstanding IDE over the years).
>>>
>>> I've been using VIM, but Emacs is the clear editor of choice for Erlang
>>> development, which I'm doing more of. And since Emacs has pretty deep
>>> support for everything else, I'm gonna make the switch.
>>>
>>> We'll see how the Java stuff goes. As far as Python, the basic
>>> python-mode is already an improvement over what I was using in VIM.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You might want to check out eclim too.  It connects/integrates Vim to a
>> headless Eclipse ( or headed, or embedded editor )
>> and get the same sort of Java autocomplete and refactoring stuff via
>> regular Vim stuff (like ctrl-n ).
>>
>> I think it's pretty flexible, so it might be able to harness PyDev and
>> other Eclipse plugins as well.
>>
>> http://eclim.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> -Steve
>>
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