Archive for June 9th, 2006

Posted on June 9, 2006 - by jono

PythonDevelop?

Dear Lazyweb, for some time now I have been looking for an Integrated Development Environment for Python that not only provides a great programming editor, but also has built-in support for GUI form editors such as Glade or Gazpacho. At the moment I am using Eclipse, and although it is great, it makes my head hurt. The perfect IDE for me needs to:

• include GUI form editing for GTK forms that is compatible with Glade.
• have all the bells and whistles of a programming editor.
• support Subversion/CVS.
• importantly, be simple to use.

Then, out of the shimmering light, an idea struck me. Lets face it, MonoDevelop looks awesome, and it looks like it provides a powerful, simple, integrated environment. This being Open Source and all, surely something such as MonoDevelop could be created for Python development? Mmmm PythonDevelop. Would it be a big deal to port MonoDevelop so it is written in Python and is used for writing Python code? Python is a really nice language with a reasonable toolset that totally lacks integration – something like MonoDevelop would make it rock good, hard and heavy.

Python experts everywhere, share with us your knowledge. Open Source hackers, feel inspired to make this happen.