Which KDE IDE for Python?

[Phil Thompson]

On Friday 04 August 2006 11:52 am, Bart Ogryczak wrote:
> Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> > Bart Ogryczak schrieb:
> > > Hi,
> > > Rigth now I'm using two IDEs for Python, KDevelop and Eric. Both have
> > > drawbacks. KDevelop is a multilanguage IDE, and doesn't really have
> > > anything special for Python. There's no Python debugger, no PyDOC
> > > integration, it's class browser doesn't display attributes. On the
> > > other side there's Eric, which is made just for Python. But.. it
> > > doesn't integrate with KDE, doesn't support remote files (fish://,
> > > ftp:// etc.). Does anyone know a better IDE for Python, that'll
> > > integrate nicely with KDE?
> >
> > I bet you can try and convince Detlev Offenbach (eric developer) to add
> > that - he already has _some_ KDE-specific stuff in there, and I presume
> > supporting IO-Slaves might not be too hard.
>
> Actually I doubt it. For example on question why doesn't Eric use
> katepart as editor, he responded:
> "Because it is actually written using PyQt and is meant to work on
> Win... and Mac OS X as well. Therefore it must not depend on KDE (or
> any other non-portable or non-ported toolkit)."

There is a huge difference between depending on something and being able to 
use something if it is available. Eric can't depend on katepart, but it can 
use the KDE standard dialogs if they are available.

Phil