Best IDE for Python

[Keith Perkins]

yogamatt1970 at gmail.com wrote:
> stylecomputers at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi All, What do you find the best IDE for creating web applications in
>> Python is? Preferably FOS IDE.
>>
>> Cheers
> 
> I like ActiveState's Komodo.  It's heavyweight and not free ($30 for
> the personal edition) but it also supports Perl, Ruby, PHP and TCL.  I
> started using it mostly on Windows but I've used it on Linux more
> recently (and it runs on Solaris and OSX now too).
> It has all the bells and whistles and probably won't appeal too much to
> hardcore emacs/vim people because it is so GUI oriented and nowhere
> near as fast.  Also, it's text editor is similar to the ones you get
> with other popular IDE's like MS DevStudio and Eclipse i.e. not very
> powerful.
> I've used it extensively with Python and it handles whitespace
> indentation beautifully.  I like that it also supports Perl because I
> use Perl quite a bit too.
> That being said, I'm going to give Wing IDE a try at some point soon.
> 
Have you tried SPE (Stani's Python Editor) http://stani.be/python/spe/
Free, and available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.