[wxPython-users] Recommendations for IDE

[Josiah Carlson]

"Walter E. Gough" <walter.e.gough at gmail.com> wrote:
> I develop on Linux (mostly) and use Eric3 (hoping to move to Eric4 soon). I
> tried several others - but settled on Eric3 because it was the only open
> source IDE I could find that has a multithreaded debugger for Python.
> Eric3's code completion is pretty much useless (IMHO), so I just turned it
> off to speed up the editor - and that's about the only thing I've had to
> complain about.
> 
> Every couple months I go looking for a new IDE ... If Komodo had a nice,
> rock solid GUI designer for wxPython, I'd cough up the money.
> 
> On Windows, trying to setup Eric3 is quite a pain and I would recommend it.
> On Windows, I just use KomodoEdit (it's free and is pretty decent).
> 
> 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.

Basically every editor written in wxWidgets/wxPython (or Gtk or Qt for
that matter) all use the same editing component: Scintilla.  Eric3/4,
Komodo, SPE, DrPython, Ulipad, PyPE, Gedit... heck, even the commit
message window in TortioseCVS/SVN uses Scintilla.  With it, you get good
syntax highlighting (for basically every language worth mentioning, with
more being added every couple months), and with a bit of work,
autocomplete isn't that terribly difficult to do (PyPE limits itself to
what it can do without importing arbitrary modules, or executing
arbitrary code).  Idle, and the standard PyShell included with wxPython
offer some examples of what are possible.


 - Josiah