Anyone able to compare the commercial IDEs available?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Moshe Zadka <moshez at zadka.site.co.il> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, "Franz GEIGER" <fgeiger at datec.at> wrote:

>> I'm aware of three commercial IDEs for Python:
>> -- PythonWare
>> -- BlackAdder
>> -- Komodo

> I'm not sure what you mean by "commercial". Komodo is Open Source,
> so why didn't you list IDLE and PythonWin too?


I've written a detailed review of Pythonwarei, Wing IDE, Python and IDLE
for informit - www.informit.com. They don't support linking to articles
:-(. However, Pythonware should have become better since that time. I'm
currently writing a book on BlackAdder - the debugger is good, as is the
gui designer.  The editing component of BlackAdder is Scintilla, which
is good, too. However, the current betas are clearly not finished. I
found Komodo far too slow, and far too buggy for a real evaluation.

I'd say that Wing's debugger is currently by far the most capable,
Pythonware's the most comfortable. BlackAdder's gui designer is far
superior to anything else, as it is based on Qt Designer. Any IDE that
doesn't use Scintilla for its editor is not using the best there is in
Python editors.

And I really hate sdi IDE's. I want to be able to see two source files
at the same time!

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