[SciPy-User] Python and Eclipse

[Charles R Harris]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 17:30 -0500, Nathaniel Polish wrote:
>
> > I would never recommend it to anyone under the age of 40 since IDEs
> >  such as Eclipse are better in just about every way.
>
> This is so arguable... Ok, let's not get started on that, at least it is
> now clear what did you have in mind when you were asking your question.
>
>
And I was so hoping for an emacs/vim flame war ;)


> The combinations that I've seen people using for SciPy / Numpy:
>
> 1) Aptana (= Eclipse + PyDev)
> 2) PyCharm (= IDEA + Python plugin, commercial)
> 3) Wingware IDE (commercial)
> 4) vim / emacs + Python shell
> 5) Eric, Spyder, other lightweight IDE's
>
>
I've seen folks on windows running Eclipse using the Python(x,y)
distribution. It looked pretty cool. If I have to use windows I'll probably
give it a shot.


> All of them, can be, of course, complimented by ipython -pylab for quick
> experimentation. Specific choice is purely a matter of taste / what
> makes you personally most productive.
>
> > I was looking for recommendations for development environments that are
> > considered by the community to be "modern".
>
> Well, I personally use PyCharm. I guess I am a very modern guy. Not sure
> if it's a compliment though :-) It's paid-for, but if you have ever used
> any of the other JetBrains IDE's you can understand why one would want
> to pay for it.
>
>
Off to google the name. I don't end up using these IDE's but its fun to see
what's out there. And maybe I'm just an old dog.

Chuck
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