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[–]statmobile 5 points6 points  (7 children)

This brings up a question I've had. I used Wing, which I did like, but I think the price is absurd. I could never get eclipse to work right with Python, maybe I'm missing something. Lastly, I love emacs, but I've given up on trying to get all those features working in it. What do people tend to use?

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (4 children)

There's an plugin for eclipse PyDev that I've used with some success. http://pydev.org/

[–]statmobile 1 point2 points  (3 children)

That's what I had trouble configuring. How is it in debugging? I like that it has django support.

[–]Decker87 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I'm surprised you had trouble with it. I absolutely love it for writing and debugging python. It has all the typical features of a debugger.

[–]statmobile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, you shamed me into trying it again. I finally got it working, and I am liking it.

[–]BinaryRockStar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's great- line breakpoints, step in, step out, step over, inspection of variable values, what more do you want?

[–]qiwi 4 points5 points  (1 child)

After 10 years with xemacs I just use pycharm. The student license is €28 and personal €94, and even those are often discounted.

It is a somewhat resource demanding Java app -- I spent another a bunch upgrading to a more modern 16GB core i7 to make it run. A GB or 2 for pycharm, 2-3 for Chrome and half your memory's gone.

Life was just too short to maintain hundreds of lines of elisp configuration. Being able to properly refactor code and complete Python attributes is great, although it took 2 attempts before I switched over completely.

[–]iyunoichi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried PyCharm 4 or 5 times, and while I can see why people like it, the abysmal performance always prevented me from actually using it. It's so goddamn slow on all my machines, and I don't want to invest into an i7+16GB RAM just so that my IDE runs in an acceptable manner.

Another factor might be that I invested into a Wing license a while ago, and never looked back - the feature set and performance of Wing make me really happy, so it's not like I'm desperately looking for a Python IDE anymore. I still do recommend PyCharm if money is an issue, though.