[wxPython-users] Recommendations for IDE

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Walter E. Gough wrote:

> If someone is aware of an open source python IDE with good syntax
> highlighting, useful code completion, and a debugger that can handle
> multithreaded apps, I'd love to hear about it.

> SPE is very interesting with its support for Blender, but many of the
> programs I write are multithreaded. It's been a while since I tried SPE, so
> maybe it can handle it?

   I don't know about multi-threading support in any of the IDEs.

   There's Boa Constructor (cute, eh?) and, perhaps, one or two others. I
tried a few of them and went back to emacs. I'm _much_ happier.

> I keep thinking about starting a project to build a GUI designer for
> wxPython - something so easy to use it might remind you of VB. But as soon
> as "VB" crosses my mind, I become ill and start thinking of all the
> reasons I like Python.

   Have you looked at wxGlade? It does for wxPython what Glade does for C.

   I started our approximate reasoning model using wxGlade, found that it
took away all my control and used a syntax and style I did not like. So, I
write all the wxPython code in emacs. With block/yank/paste it's really not
a chore to do it all.

Rich

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