one free one on LInux I'd avoid is SPE IDE - Stani's Python Editor It's just too old and in the dark ages I had a lot of problems with encodings and white space/indentation nightmares when taking my code from it to other editors
If you go with a simple text editor on Linux try Kate, its got some minimal Python functionality built in like code coloring and intelligent indentation On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Doug Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > I use an IDE called Aptana Studio 3 and like it. > I can't say that I've tried a lot of IDEs and I tend to get more > opinionated about programming languages and technologies than editors > but when I got into Django I looked at some options and found Aptana to be > the most full featured free and platform independent option that I could > dig up. Its meant to be a web development IDE so it has some nice > HTML/CSS/JavaScript/JQuery niceities like code coloring, code completion > and things ( which helps me get through the design and onto the important > stuff: Django ). Aptana is built on top of PyDev, the python plugin for > Eclipse ( which has been an opensource standard IDE for a good long time ), > so its got everything python from PyDev and then has a few Django > conveniences built in too, like some common command line django commands > available from the IDE's GUI, and a (i)python shell that loads up your > django environment and lets you do stuff like play with your models to get > them working before you add in extended admin functionality for them or > cook up a proper web interface. > One complaint I have with it is that its a little hard to work with Aptana > Django projects if you are developing them on multiple computers because > the project profile has hard coded paths. The work around is to ignore them > in your version control. One the first computer you start the project with, > Aptana and PyDev will create well formed project meta data file ( one for > each ). You manually copy the new computer and manually edit the hidden > files and change the file paths in the XML to fit the different file > system. It could be worse and I'll probably stop complaining once I write a > script to do it for me. > All around Aptana offers a lot. > I'm believe in simplicity when it comes to programming > When it comes to IDEs I believe in convenience. > > > On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Jacky Tedy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just use Vim >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
