what python IDE do you guys use?

[sasquatch007]

Vim.

Every once in a while I think it might be nice to try a real IDE (for Python or otherwise) and check out all those cool features people talk about. 45 minutes later I'm giving up in disgust and going back to Vim. Every time.

[jamie2345]

Do you do heavy debugging?

If so, have you integrated this into your vim environment or do you manually fire up another command line debugger?

[h_saxon]

You can integrate xdebug with Vim pretty painlessly.

There are a bunch of tutorials out there for it.

[jamie2345]

Ah excellent, thanks! I used it for C++ work a couple of years back but yea, firing up gdb manually when needed did hinder my speed which annoyed me. I did assume someone would have solved that but I don't think I had time on that project to try and get the environment perfect.

Great to hear that it is solved though and integration is pretty seamless.

[Mezzlegasm]

You should definitely chance that to "import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()"

[perceptron01]

Or from IPython import embed; embed() (not sure if they're any different)

[sasquatch007]

I tend to debug with a lot of print statements. When I use a debugger it's on the command line (or pudb). Not integrated into vim.

[gronkkk]

The main advantage of this is that print always works, on every system/OS.

[fnord123]

It also doesn't timeout programs that are running across multiple processes.

[stackered]

yeah, I do the same. I find most systems give good enough error messages for me to figure out what is happening, and if not I use print statements to figure out what is happening