Which Python IDE?

[Steve Lamb]

Enils wrote:
> Pydev is a good python editor and as you know there is an eclipse
> plug-in for it. I use vi myself, but when I'm in the mood to use a Gui
> Editor I use pydev. Its developers have not gone overboard with
> options like Eric IDE for example. I like it because it's light weight
> and does not try to be an all in one type of editor.

<soapbox>
     *TWEEEEEEET*  25 yard penalty for trying to seriously use "light weight" 
in reference to anything written in /JAVA/.  I decided to chuck anything 
written in Java to the wayside after I decided to kick Azureus to the side. 
With a lack of quality Linux bittorrent clients it was hard.  But then I 
decided to look at some Python clients.  Stuff comparable to Azureus.  Then 
for giggles did uTorrent in WINE.  End results:

uTorrent (C in WINE), 10Mb RAM, 0.01 load.
G3Torrent and Rufus (Python clients both), 30Mb RAM 0.1 load
Azureus (Java), 300Mb RAM, 2.0 load at nice 0, 1.1-1.2 load at nice 5.

     Eclipse compared to other editors is the same.  It's not the program, 
it's just that Java is a pig when it comes to resources.  I really have never 
found a program in Java that is not 10x larger than a similar program in 
Python and far larger than the same program in C.

</soapbox>

     With that said WING is what I would use if I were strapped to a Windows 
box working on command line/daemon Python scripts.  Boa-Constructor, for all 
its many... many... MANY faults is the only editor in which I could construct 
a decent wxPython GUI app.  I ended up building the GUI in Boa-Constructor, 
slaughtering a chicken to ensure it didn't blow up while saving the framework 
then did the heavy coding in vim.  I wish WING did wx for GUI work.  :/