relative newbie looking for a python ide recommendation

[marshall]

"hidden" <hidden at hidden.com> wrote:
> Up until now, I've been doing my python hacking using emacs on linux and
> idle on Windows XP. Now that I'm getting more serious about the language,
> I'd like to use an ide. The three candidates (for me) are:
> 
> o Archaeopteryx's Wing IDE ($150)
> o ActiveState's VisualPython ($300)
> o pyeclipse, an "add-in" to the Eclipse IDE (http://www.eclipse.org/) (BSD
> license)
> 

I tried Wing IDE and did not like it.  Mostly look and feel but also,
the standard edition did not let me access my objects while code was
executing so I was back to using print statements anyway.

Also tried Komodo but execution was execution was impossibly slow
(editor was nice though).

Now I just use IDLEfork (http://sourceforge.net/projects/idlefork) for
execution & debugging and LEO (http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo) as
editor, project manager and code browser.  LEO doesn't have the
autocomplete/hint function yet but it is coming.  Both of these are
python extensible and free.