Hi Ivo.
Well, I can say that I have tried allmost all of them, and there are a couple I consider "the best", but there is not _one_ that has all the features:
1) You have Boa Constructor (http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/), that is something like a Visual Studio for Python: you have refactoring, CVS support (if memory doesn't fail me), debugger and a long list of features. When run in constricted mode (-C as command line parameter) you get a nice editor without all the GUI building, etc. 2) SPE (http://stani.be/python/spe/blog/) that is quite a good editor, with some pluses and an "integrated" debugger. It's quite easy to mantain projects, etc, so it's one of the ones I like most. 3) Scite (http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html): very lightweight, simple completion, nice coloring, but no project managment. I use it a lot. 4) Last but not least PSPad (http://www.pspad.com): a cool editor with project managment, nothing else.
As for the paid ones, Wingide is quite complete, but it doesn't behave very well under windows (slow, and looks ugly). Instead of TrueStudio y would try Pydev that is free and has a lot of the features of TrueStudio. And Komodo is a big piece of software that (at least in my experience) crashed a lot under windows, and seems support for it has been cut down.
To resume: there is not a grea general Python IDE out there. Eric3 promissed to be good, but under windows it's slow and has some quirks. I hope someday when QT4 gets its GPL PyQT counterpart, we well get to run run Eric3 in it's full glory.
David Ivo Looser wrote:
Hi Together Currently my daily Business is Developing on Windows XP CSharp with vs.net. I think i'm blessed with vs.net. For Python so far all what i did was trying alot of python-ide's and texteditors. Vim, eric3, editplus and trustudio Fundation. I whould like to have a good ide for developing turbogear. I prefer a free one, but prices for privat use are welcome. Refactoring and svn support whould be desired but are not a must. Komodo, wingide or TrueStudio are considered. What you use an why? Someone have a suggestion to gut one? Thanks in advance. Ivo Looser
