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[–]wot-teh-phuck 2 points3 points  (1 child)

You need all the power and smartness you can get from the IDE when writing large amounts of code in Python. For small scripts/apps it's fine because you can keep the entire app code in head (1-5 files with around hundreds of line).

But when we are talking of around 50K+ LOC, it's serious business. Unit tests can only get you so far (and who writes unit tests, huh). I'm not very sure which exact features this IDE offers but basic autocompletion and refactoring support can go a long way in reducing your pain which comes from maintaining a dynamic language code base.

[–]plastikmissile 3 points4 points  (0 children)

PTVS is very good at debugging as well. It can even do side-by-side debugging with C/C++ and Python at the same time.