So far (about editing tools)

[Paul Rubin]

Micah Elliott <mde at micah.elliott.name> writes:
> Furthermore, Eclipse requires java and is thusly not provided on any
> linux distro I'm familiar with, which I consider a huge roadblock.  And
> as mentioned, it's bloated.

It comes with Fedora Core 4 and is compiled with gcj.

> I would suspect that the majority of Python programmers write in one of
> vim or emacs. Anyone got stats?

I'm a long time emacs bigot but lately I've been editing Python with
IDLE.  IDLE leaves a lot to be desired but its integration is very
convenient.