I demo'd wing ide and have to say it's the best commercial offering. The only other one I'm aware of is Komodo and it really can't touch Wing.
But for me, wingide was slugish. I have a 1/2 gig of memory and a pretty hefty CPU - i think its a 1.6 Pentium M [it's a company issued laptop -- so im not sure of the specs]. I found that as wing tried to autocomplete identifiers in large name spaces that it would take a second or so. This was really painful when working with wxPython. What wing does have going for it is a REALLY good auto-completion system. Yeah it's slow, but its good. You wing hints as to what objects are by using isinstance(). For example, the code below tells wing that frame is a wx.Frame -> # make_frame returns a wx.Frame frame = make_frame() isinstance(frame, wx.Frame) Once wing has a hint, it'll autocomplete the methods / properties for you. But again, it is slow. As far as free software goes, I really like stani's python editor. It seems to *watch* methods that you call on an object and autocomplete based on that. For example suppose it sees this code: # make another wx.Frame frame = make_frame() frame.method1() frame.method2() ... # Below, stani will autocomplete showing you method1 and method 2. # No they aren't valid wx.Frame methods! frame. HTH, jw On 24 Feb 2005 17:31:31 -0800, Harlin Seritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IDLE, PytonWin and SPE are all free and offer all of the important > features you'll see even in commercial IDE's. > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list