So far (about editing tools)

[Kenneth McDonald]

As I did mention in my original post, Eclipse is indeed bloated.  
However, in spite of that, I've found it both fast and reliable (much  
to surprise). The only real problem is learning what functionality  
(the majority) to ignore.

PyDev offers nice integration with Python. If I run a python program  
from within PyDev, errors are reported on the console, and clicking  
on an error takes me to the offending line number. Jython is also  
supported, though I haven't tried it.

I personally gave up on Emacs after spending four hours trying to get  
a perfectly simple keybinding working, and receiving no response from  
the emacs mailing list--they were apparently as mystified as I.

I don't mean to push Eclipse, but I looked at it several times before  
trying it, and backed off due to the concerns mentioned here. Once I  
actually sat down with it for about four hours to _concentrate_ on  
it, though, it rapidly became obvious that it with PyDev really was  
the best Python solution I'd found. If you do a lot of Python work,  
it's worth the effort to learn.

Ken
On 6-Oct-05, at 3:24 PM, Paul Rubin wrote:

> 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.
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