Best IDE for Python

[Bruce Who]

Hi, sjdevnull

I'm a vimmer too, and I wonder what plugins you are using. What you
said sounds interesting. Could you tell us more about the plugins?
"Object browser" is what I need most, but so far I've no idea what
plugin can do this for me, :-(

On 14 Aug 2006 15:02:13 -0700, sjdevnull at yahoo.com <sjdevnull at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yu-Xi Lim wrote:
> > Eclipse+PyDev has the advantage over emacs when it comes to big
> > projects, IMO. It has features like refactoring, better project
> > management, code coverage
>
> Emacs and vim both have good integration of BicycleRepairMan for python
> refactoring.  I don't know what better project management or code
> coverage in eclipse entail, but I've posted before that if you think
> vim/emacs are just syntax highlighting/indenting text editors you've
> got them misconfigured.
>
> The beautiful thing about vim in particular is that it uses Python as
> an internal scripting language, so it's very easy to extend it to add
> whatever you want.
>
> e.g. in vim I get
> * Syntax checking, if I type invalid python code it gets highlighted as
> an error (if I type, say, "if a=1:" and hit return, it gets highlighted
> since I need an == there).
> * Object browser, with dropdowns showing the parent and child classes
> of the current class, and the ability to jump to various class methods
> * Normal tag-jump stuff, so I can drill down into the method/function
> call I'm looking at and then pop back up (keeping a stack so I can
> drill down arbitrarily deep to follow the flow of the code)
> * Interactive help, so when, say, I type foo.blah( then the status line
> displays the first line of the docstring/python doc/preceding comment
> for foo.blah.  E.g. if I type "cmp(" then the status line shows "cmp(x,
> y) Compare the two objects X and Y and return an integer according to
> ..." and if I hit F1 then I get the full help text
> * Editor control for uncaught errors--if I code I'm debugging raises an
> uncaught exception, the editor jumps directly to it.  Even works for
> web development, if I hit a page in my dev server that raises an
> exception, it brings my editor right there.
>
> and lots more (version control integration, easy mapping of keys to
> restart the webserver after I make changes, etc).  And there's some
> internal crap (e.g. we work on lots of clients who have client-specific
> versions of some objects; I have a client menu so that if I pick one,
> then I'll jump to their client-specific version of the current file (or
> the base generic version if there isn't a specific one), tags will
> follow the right client versions, etc).
>
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