A survey of Python IDEs  Paul Boddie paul at boddie.net Fri Aug
17 18:37:29 CEST 2001  web.mail at lycos.com (Alan Green) wrote
in message news:<270c68fe.0108162046.15ee55ac at
posting.google.com>... > Despite these IDE's, it seems that most
Python developers use a text > editor to program Python. Here
are three theories about this: > a. Python is the kind of
language that doesn't need a lot of tool > support.   > c.
Python programmers are the kind of people that don't use IDEs.
I can't say that I've ever been completely immersed in an IDE
and enjoyed the experience, although there are certain things
about PythonWin (which I started to play with recently) which
are quite nice, such as attribute completion. One thing I don't
like about PythonWin is the "C64-like" editing mode - I much
prefer the readline interface, but there is a multi-line
readline interface which could appeal to me, I suppose. (There
was also a weird bug which came up every now and again while
editing programs - if I were using it now I wou