Joseph Garvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, everyone keeps discussing Eclipse as something that gives Java a > leg up on Python. *Ahem* PyDev :) Which you should also give another > try if you haven't in a few versions. Easiest way to get a GUI > debugger for python.
Can you give a brief description of what the Python debugger is like? Can it debug multi-threaded Python programs? IDLE has a rudimentary debugger that can be useful sometimes, but it wedges up when you exit from it, making its usefulness limited. > My only misgiving with Eclipse now is that I think development of > plugins for it is always going to be slower than for Emacs and other > editors because they have to be written in Java. I had thought that using the Python debugging interface for required writing C extensions. There's a mention in the Python cookbook of some C-only interface needed for cross-thread signalling. What's up with that? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
