Which IDE is recommended?

[monkey]

> What about eric?

Good, it seem a very capable ide. But it require qt and for linux only?
(can't find the system requirement)

> I have been using PyDev for some time, but i think it is not always very
> handsome (e.g. writing a 5-line script in vim needs less time than
> eclipse startup ;-) otoh, for 5line scripts i am using vim anyway...

Yes, eclipse really eat my ram out....