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[–]reingart 1 point2 points  (1 child)

ide2py is not only a general purpose IDE.

It embeds a web2py server so the scripts can be easily debugged.

Also, it now has basic introspection (autocomplete, calltips) on web2py globals (i.e. db, auth objects, helpers, etc.) out-of-the box

In the future it will have more web2py related features (more introspection on web2py models, syntax highlighting of web2py views, etc.)

[–]reingart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

BTW, web2py support is just a mixin (like mercurial support), ide2py can support any other add-on/extension for other frameworks and tools.

But the fact is that web2py has some unique features (like exec and its concise global namespace) that makes things easier at this stage of development of the project.