Eclipse best/good or bad IDE for Python?

[Paul Boddie]

Avi... at gmail.com wrote:
> Eclipse, for example, performs like a dog on
> my dual opteron workstation w/ 2GB of RAM, which is more than enough to
> annoy me. I shouldn't have to wait more than about 1 second for an
> editor to start and then open what is essentially a text file :-P.

And then, due to the excessive "project management" screen furniture,
have to edit it "through the keyhole"...

Paul