IDE for mulit-thread

[Jive Dadson]

What IDE do you use for multi-thread development?  Or more generally, how do you go about developing a multi-thread app?

I tried IDLE.  It totally locks up when you start a new thread.

I tried Wing.  I can't make heads or tails of the Wing interface.  What does all that stuff DO?  Perhaps I should (shudder) read the documentation?

I tried PyShell.  A simple non-thread function that ten times calls time.sleep(1) and then prints 'tick' just goes away for 10 seconds, then prints 'tick' ten times all at once.  When I ran it in a separate thread, the first time PyShell popped up a new window and put 'tick's in it. (Surprise!) The popup closed itself when the ticker thread finished.  The next couple of times I started a ticking thread,  nothing appeared to happen.  I was hoping to use a PyShell in a prototype GUI.  Now I wonder.

Python in a plain DOS console window does okay.