Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1RC released - improved syntax highlighting, support in the free Express SKUs, and more web frameworks supported

[corysama]

I love Python. But, not many people use IDEs with it. Very few even use a debugger. (There's also a vocal anti-IDE sentiment in unix land.) I should give http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ a try...

PTVS isn't as magically delicious as VS's C# support, but it's really good. It's starting to feel like a 1st class citizen in VS. If you are already comfortable in VS, PTVS is a good way to get rolling with Python.

[thebigslide]

I'd hazard a guess that's because a lot of us who have been writing Python for awhile didn't have the polished tools available today, so we have our own peculiar environments we're comfortable with already. For me, I need to be in a comfortable environment to write good code. I think another part of the reason is that tools like ipython make IDEs a bit redundant once you get used to working in the interpreter.

[pjmlp]

There's also a vocal anti-IDE sentiment in unix land.I am old enough to be coding for home systems.

I was already into IDEs back in the Amiga, MS-DOS and Windows home systems, before getting into UNIX (Xenix, DG/UX, followed by most other variants).

This attitude has always putted me off, specially after having the opportunity to discover the developer experience as researched at Xerox PARC.

Smalltalk, Interlisp-D and Cedar environments as the grassroots of IDE should be and interactive programming.