Python IDE (SPE / wxPython 2.5 doesn't work)

[Ville Vainio]

>From: Chris Ferrell <dlist at ubuntuforums.org>

>I've become interested in Python lately and also used to think that the
>universal IDE (Eclipse) was the way to go, but I've since changed my
>mind.
>
>The main problem I see is that developers/plugin-in writers have to
>code in Java.  Maybe that's not a big deal for some, but I would think
>that many Python developers would rather avoid that.

Yep; however, it might be safe to expect that very little plugin writing
would take place in the end. I don't think we need all that many Python
plugins, and general purpose plugins would be produced by the
ever-growing Eclipse community. End users should never need to write
plugins anyway.


>I had to delete wx /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages completely to get
>SPE working, but from the limited amount I've seen it looks nice and we
>"finally" get gtk+2.x goodness in wx.

Thanks, rm-ing the site-packages/wx directory fixed it for me too.
Obviously this is something the eventual Hoary end user should not need
to do...

>I'd love to see a SPE package in hoary.

Me too. 

>Of course writing one from scratch with PyGtk+ is always an option.  It
>seems like a mature, stable toolkit to the limited exposure I've had,
>but it might be better just to contribute to something like SPE since
>it's already there and looks great to boot.

It also works well on Windows, which is a must for any tool that many of
us could even consider using. I suppose PyGtk has much less Windows
exposure, even though at least Gaim didn't seem half bad there either.