September 27, 2005

Python IDEs

A good review of 6 python IDEs. The winners seem to be:

PyDev 0.9.8.1 if you like Eclipse
Eric3 3.7.1 or SPE if you want open source or free
Wing IDE 2.0.3 if you want commercialware

Apparently Wing IDE has improved. I tried version 1 and wasn't that impressed and ended up using a mixture of ipython, vim, editplus and PythonWin and recently have switched to eric3 on ubuntu and installed easily via synaptic.

I'll have to try SPE but it won't work easily in Ubuntu 5.04. The latest drpython (with folding also won't work as the version of wxpython is old.

Wing personal seems useless without the folding and class browser I'd need to get the $180 version.

Update: I loaded Stani's Python Editor (SPE) and it is excellent.

Posted by Anthony at September 27, 2005 11:08 PM