[Tutor] Best IDE for python?

[Alan Gauld]

"Dick Moores" <rdm at rcblue.com> wrote

>>Which IDE to use is no more than a matter of taste and laziness.
>
> Wow! Care to support that statement?

I'd have thought it was pretty self evident.
The lazier you are the more automation and assistance you
want the IDE to provide. But if you are a traditional programmer
you may prefer to keep total control.

Personally I love features like syntax highlighting, am
slightly ambivalent about tips(eg for function parameters)
and hate code completion wizards etc.

I also like automated navigation (as in highlight a function name
and get the IDE find the definition - ala Unix tags), but I hate
integrated project management tools as in Visual Studio etc.

So I like a good editor but avoid most IDEs.

(In practice I use Netbeans/Eclipse for Java, Delphi(*) for hard-core
windows programming but Pythonwin or vim/command prompt
for Python)

But I know of folks who want the IDE to do everything and
want to think as little as possible about the mechanics of
writing code. Its a matter of taste and how much you want
the tool to do the thinking for you.

(*)And I use Delphi v3 because I don't like the latest
versions because The IDE gets in my way too often!

At least I think that's what Rikard meant.

Alan G.