Ranting about the state of Python IDEs for Windows

[Thomas Heller]

Carlos Ribeiro <carribeiro at gmail.com> writes:

> Oh well. A mailing list is not the most appropriate place for rants (a
> blog is better), but it's still better than keeping it for myself.
>
> I'm frustrated. My search for a good IDE to support my activities --
> doing development for Python in the Windows environment -- are not
> being succesful as I had originally dreamt. I have big constraints on
> what can I do now; money is not an option, and my current machine is
> still useful but it's below par for more advanced stuff. It's my
> fault? Probably. But it's all that I have -- a 500MHz PC with 64MB and
> Win98 SE. It has to be Windows, for reasons beyond my control (read
> wife and kids :-).

If you work on Windows, you should really, really, really upgrade to
win2k, at least - even if it costs some performance on your machine.

You can even *use* the 'dos-box' then ;-).

Thomas