Django development IDE

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I have done a little Django development  but it has all been in a text editor  I was curious what more advanced development tools others are using in their Django development   I am used to using Visual Studio for development and really like the IntelliSense  code completion  and file organization it provides and would like to find something  or a combination of tools  that would provide some of this in the Django Python environment

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I use Eclipse and a plain vanilla PyDev  There isn t any specific Django functionality  The best I came up with was setting up a run profile to run the development web server   If you add the web tools project  WTP   you ll get syntax highlighting in your templates  but nothing that relates to the specific template language  PyDev is a decent plugin  and if you are already familiar with Eclipse and use it for other projects it is a good way to go   I recall NetBeans starting to get Python support  but I have no idea where that is right now  Lots of people rave about NetBeans nbsp 6  but in the Java world Eclipse still reigns as the king of the OSS IDEs

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NetBeans for Python is my current favorite  lighter and so much easier to install than Eclipse I found   Supports simple refactoring  autocompletion  errors warnings     Eclipse Aptana PyDev probably one of the most complete free IDE nowadays  haven t tested a lot   Wingware Python IDE a commercial IDE  which has some Django-specific project setup features the ability to debug Django template files   IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition another commercial IDE which has also a plugin for Python that is under heavy development  I saw some demo which look very promising on the auto-completion  for templates and Python    Vim which I still use a small touch-fix application  See also  Extra tweaks for Django

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I have used Eclipse with PyDev and PyCharm  PyCharm is definitely the best IDE for Django Python I have tried  It does proper template highlighting and auto-completion for all objects  It also does cross-file referencing   It s quite expensive  but definitely the best Django IDE I have tried  You can try a 30 day evaluation at http   www jetbrains com pycharm download

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PyCharm  It is best the IDE for Python Django  and web development I ve tried so far  It is totally worth the money

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TextMate with the Django and django-html bundles installed gives you syntax highlighting and great extensibility  It is lightweight and fun to use   Here is a link to a code completion project for TextMate with Python  which I haven t used myself   As for  intellisense   which I understand to be inline-doc reference   TextMate has that too

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I have consistently used Vim or Kate  but I would prefer a full-blown IDE  Given it is not as heavy as Visual Studio

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There is an actual Python extension for Visual Studio   http   pytools codeplex com    It s absolutely fantastic   It feels the same as if I were coding in any native Visual Studio language   The extension is even compatabile with Django   And best of all   it s totally free   Even for Visual Studio  it only requires the Visual Studio Shell to work  which is completely free

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TextMate  Firebug  and pdb  The latter one saved me gazillion of times

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Geany  It is GTK2 based  fast  lightweight  available for Linux and Windows

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If you like Vim as an editor  here are some suggestions on how to tune it  up to the point of a full fledged IDE  for Django development  http   code djangoproject com wiki UsingVimWithDjango

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The Wing IDE is a good IDE to use

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I ve also had good results with Eclipse and Pydev  Although I still require a shell opened to the project directory to run manage py commands  I ve also been using it with the Bazaar plugin for revision control and syncing code with the server

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I use Komodo Edit   Check out the Open Komodo Edit

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I ve also had good results with Eclipse and Pydev  Although I still require a shell opened to the project directory to run manage py commands  I ve also been using it with the Bazaar plugin for revision control and syncing code with the server

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Eclipse has the PyDev plugin for python development   Unfortunately  I m not sure how well it integrates with Django

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As far as I know there is not  an IDE  for Django  but there are some IDEs that support Django right out of the box  specifically the Django syntax for templates   The name is Komodo  and it has a lot of features  but it s not cheap  If you are not worried about source control or debugging then there is a free version called Komodo Edit

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Well  I ve been using my own one  Recently they released an alpha version  Here it is at pfaide com

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I use Kate  KDE Advanced Text Editor  for most of my development  including Django  It has both a Python and Django Templates syntax higlighting   I switch to Quanta  when a significant part of the project involves HTML   Since it uses Kate s KPart  it s just as good for editing the Python parts  and for the HTML templates i have the whole Quanta  tools  while still highligting Django-specific tags   Update 2013   Unfortunately  Quanta  has been dead for years now  and there s no hope that it will ever be resurrected   Also  there s no other usable HTML editor out there  so it s Kate all the time now

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I ve also had good results with Eclipse and Pydev  Although I still require a shell opened to the project directory to run manage py commands  I ve also been using it with the Bazaar plugin for revision control and syncing code with the server

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I use Vim   http   github com skyl vim-config-python-ide   UPDATE   Sublime Text 2 is pretty awesome  It supports a lot of Vim commands if you want them  Vintage Mode  It has a nice package manager  http   wbond net sublime packages package control  I use these packages so far   Djaneiro  SetDjangoSyntax  CoffeeScript  SublimeLinter  Theme - Soda  SideBarEnhancements  I still love Vim but     did I mention that Sublime Text plugins are written in Python

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Ninja-IDE   Check this  Ninja-IDE Django Plugin

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You guys should checkout PyCharm  It is the first decent Django IDE

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Ulipad is a good one  http   code google com p ulipad

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PyCharm  It is best the IDE for Python Django  and web development I ve tried so far  It is totally worth the money

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PyCharm  definitely  I tried them all  almost   but PyCharm is the one I found most useful for any heavy development   For simple  one time  scripts I use whatever comes to mind  TextMate  Vim  Emacs  TextWrangler  etc   you name it

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There is PyCharm from JetBrains which supports Django and Google Apps  It looks promising   Note  You need to buy a license for the Professional version if you want Django  support  The Community version desn t support Django

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I am beginning to enjoy working with Aptana Studios   PyDev  and other  plugins for all sorts of web application development  As you can tell  it is built on top of the powerful Eclipse  but is tailor-designed to focus on web application development

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The Wing IDE is a good IDE to use

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Editra supports Django Template Language syntax highlighting  You can configure it either as a better Notepad or a basic IDE

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Sublime

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I use Kate as well  Kate s simplicity is its biggest feature  It doesn t get in your way   This is of course highly subjective opinion    Kate includes a Python code browser plugin  But it isn t useful IMO  No automatic updates when you change the code view  Also when you update  the whole tree is collapsed  and you have to expand it again yourself  Too many clicks   Instead  I use the Source Browser plugin that comes with P  t    It does cause Kate to freeze temporarily sometimes  but no crashes or anything of that sort so far   Shameless blog plug  more on using Django with Kate  P  t

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Editra supports Django Template Language syntax highlighting  You can configure it either as a better Notepad or a basic IDE

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I use Kate  KDE Advanced Text Editor  for most of my development  including Django  It has both a Python and Django Templates syntax higlighting   I switch to Quanta  when a significant part of the project involves HTML   Since it uses Kate s KPart  it s just as good for editing the Python parts  and for the HTML templates i have the whole Quanta  tools  while still highligting Django-specific tags   Update 2013   Unfortunately  Quanta  has been dead for years now  and there s no hope that it will ever be resurrected   Also  there s no other usable HTML editor out there  so it s Kate all the time now

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Geany  It is GTK2 based  fast  lightweight  available for Linux and Windows

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As far as I know there is not  an IDE  for Django  but there are some IDEs that support Django right out of the box  specifically the Django syntax for templates   The name is Komodo  and it has a lot of features  but it s not cheap  If you are not worried about source control or debugging then there is a free version called Komodo Edit

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You guys should checkout PyCharm  It is the first decent Django IDE

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As far as I know there is not  an IDE  for Django  but there are some IDEs that support Django right out of the box  specifically the Django syntax for templates   The name is Komodo  and it has a lot of features  but it s not cheap  If you are not worried about source control or debugging then there is a free version called Komodo Edit

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Ninja-IDE   Check this  Ninja-IDE Django Plugin

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As far as I know there is not  an IDE  for Django  but there are some IDEs that support Django right out of the box  specifically the Django syntax for templates   The name is Komodo  and it has a lot of features  but it s not cheap  If you are not worried about source control or debugging then there is a free version called Komodo Edit

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I use Komodo Edit   Check out the Open Komodo Edit

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I use Kate as well  Kate s simplicity is its biggest feature  It doesn t get in your way   This is of course highly subjective opinion    Kate includes a Python code browser plugin  But it isn t useful IMO  No automatic updates when you change the code view  Also when you update  the whole tree is collapsed  and you have to expand it again yourself  Too many clicks   Instead  I use the Source Browser plugin that comes with P  t    It does cause Kate to freeze temporarily sometimes  but no crashes or anything of that sort so far   Shameless blog plug  more on using Django with Kate  P  t

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I have used Eclipse with PyDev and PyCharm  PyCharm is definitely the best IDE for Django Python I have tried  It does proper template highlighting and auto-completion for all objects  It also does cross-file referencing   It s quite expensive  but definitely the best Django IDE I have tried  You can try a 30 day evaluation at http   www jetbrains com pycharm download

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I use Komodo Edit   Check out the Open Komodo Edit

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I like Eclipse   PyDev and or eric  myself  The new version of PyDev has some pretty awesome code completion support   Since I only use Eclipse for PyDev  I use a slim install of just the Platform Runtime Binary   PyDev   Subclipse

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I really like E Text Editor as it s pretty much a  port  of TextMate to Windows  Obviously Django being based on Python  the support for auto-completion is limited  there s nothing like intellisense that would require a dedicated IDE with knowledge of the intricacies of each library   but the use of snippets and  word-completion  helps a lot  Also  it has support for both Django Python files and the template files  and CSS  HTML  etc   I ve been using E Text Editor for a long time now  and I can tell you that it beats both PyDev and Komodo Edit hands down when it comes to working with Django  For other kinds of projects  PyDev and Komodo might be more adequate though

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I use Vim   http   github com skyl vim-config-python-ide   UPDATE   Sublime Text 2 is pretty awesome  It supports a lot of Vim commands if you want them  Vintage Mode  It has a nice package manager  http   wbond net sublime packages package control  I use these packages so far   Djaneiro  SetDjangoSyntax  CoffeeScript  SublimeLinter  Theme - Soda  SideBarEnhancements  I still love Vim but     did I mention that Sublime Text plugins are written in Python

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Now you can also use Visual Studio 2010  Here s how    Download and install Python Tools for Visual Studio  Create a new project from existing code  menu File   New   Project From Existing Code     Specify your Django project folder and use the defaults  Right-click on manage py and choose Set as Startup File  In your project properties Debug tab  add  runserver  in Script Arguments  You can set break points  and attach to the Python process for debugging  If you want to debug without having to  attach to process   use  runserver --noreload  in your script arguments  However  the  --noreload  means you ll have to stop and restart the Django development web server manually  to recognize your code changes     This is a nice setup if you already use Visual Studio   Python Tools has been updated  It has built in support for Django now

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Eclipse has the PyDev plugin for python development   Unfortunately  I m not sure how well it integrates with Django

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There is PyCharm from JetBrains which supports Django and Google Apps  It looks promising   Note  You need to buy a license for the Professional version if you want Django  support  The Community version desn t support Django

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I ve also had good results with Eclipse and Pydev  Although I still require a shell opened to the project directory to run manage py commands  I ve also been using it with the Bazaar plugin for revision control and syncing code with the server

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TextMate with the Django and django-html bundles installed gives you syntax highlighting and great extensibility  It is lightweight and fun to use   Here is a link to a code completion project for TextMate with Python  which I haven t used myself   As for  intellisense   which I understand to be inline-doc reference   TextMate has that too

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I really like E Text Editor as it s pretty much a  port  of TextMate to Windows  Obviously Django being based on Python  the support for auto-completion is limited  there s nothing like intellisense that would require a dedicated IDE with knowledge of the intricacies of each library   but the use of snippets and  word-completion  helps a lot  Also  it has support for both Django Python files and the template files  and CSS  HTML  etc   I ve been using E Text Editor for a long time now  and I can tell you that it beats both PyDev and Komodo Edit hands down when it comes to working with Django  For other kinds of projects  PyDev and Komodo might be more adequate though

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I use Kate  KDE Advanced Text Editor  for most of my development  including Django  It has both a Python and Django Templates syntax higlighting   I switch to Quanta  when a significant part of the project involves HTML   Since it uses Kate s KPart  it s just as good for editing the Python parts  and for the HTML templates i have the whole Quanta  tools  while still highligting Django-specific tags   Update 2013   Unfortunately  Quanta  has been dead for years now  and there s no hope that it will ever be resurrected   Also  there s no other usable HTML editor out there  so it s Kate all the time now

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Ulipad is a good one  http   code google com p ulipad

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Eclipse has the PyDev plugin for python development   Unfortunately  I m not sure how well it integrates with Django

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The Wingware editor from http   www wingware com is Python-specific with very good auto-completion for Python Django Zope  etc   It has a built in Python shell to run snippets  or select and run  and support for Mercurial Git  etc  and a built-in unittest nose doctest test runner  It s commercial though  but as it is written in Python  it s cross platform   I bought it a while ago  and thought it looked dorky  but I ve tried them all and keep coming back  Caveat that I am a Windows guy with no Emacs or Vim skills  so leveraging that was not an option  And the Mac version requires X Window and seems to be more glitchy

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PyCharm  definitely  I tried them all  almost   but PyCharm is the one I found most useful for any heavy development   For simple  one time  scripts I use whatever comes to mind  TextMate  Vim  Emacs  TextWrangler  etc   you name it

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I use Komodo Edit   Check out the Open Komodo Edit

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I use Kate as well  Kate s simplicity is its biggest feature  It doesn t get in your way   This is of course highly subjective opinion    Kate includes a Python code browser plugin  But it isn t useful IMO  No automatic updates when you change the code view  Also when you update  the whole tree is collapsed  and you have to expand it again yourself  Too many clicks   Instead  I use the Source Browser plugin that comes with P  t    It does cause Kate to freeze temporarily sometimes  but no crashes or anything of that sort so far   Shameless blog plug  more on using Django with Kate  P  t

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I use Kate  KDE Advanced Text Editor  for most of my development  including Django  It has both a Python and Django Templates syntax higlighting   I switch to Quanta  when a significant part of the project involves HTML   Since it uses Kate s KPart  it s just as good for editing the Python parts  and for the HTML templates i have the whole Quanta  tools  while still highligting Django-specific tags   Update 2013   Unfortunately  Quanta  has been dead for years now  and there s no hope that it will ever be resurrected   Also  there s no other usable HTML editor out there  so it s Kate all the time now

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I like Eclipse   PyDev and or eric  myself  The new version of PyDev has some pretty awesome code completion support   Since I only use Eclipse for PyDev  I use a slim install of just the Platform Runtime Binary   PyDev   Subclipse

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I really like E Text Editor as it s pretty much a  port  of TextMate to Windows  Obviously Django being based on Python  the support for auto-completion is limited  there s nothing like intellisense that would require a dedicated IDE with knowledge of the intricacies of each library   but the use of snippets and  word-completion  helps a lot  Also  it has support for both Django Python files and the template files  and CSS  HTML  etc   I ve been using E Text Editor for a long time now  and I can tell you that it beats both PyDev and Komodo Edit hands down when it comes to working with Django  For other kinds of projects  PyDev and Komodo might be more adequate though

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Eclipse has the PyDev plugin for python development   Unfortunately  I m not sure how well it integrates with Django

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The Wingware editor from http   www wingware com is Python-specific with very good auto-completion for Python Django Zope  etc   It has a built in Python shell to run snippets  or select and run  and support for Mercurial Git  etc  and a built-in unittest nose doctest test runner  It s commercial though  but as it is written in Python  it s cross platform   I bought it a while ago  and thought it looked dorky  but I ve tried them all and keep coming back  Caveat that I am a Windows guy with no Emacs or Vim skills  so leveraging that was not an option  And the Mac version requires X Window and seems to be more glitchy

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Now you can also use Visual Studio 2010  Here s how    Download and install Python Tools for Visual Studio  Create a new project from existing code  menu File   New   Project From Existing Code     Specify your Django project folder and use the defaults  Right-click on manage py and choose Set as Startup File  In your project properties Debug tab  add  runserver  in Script Arguments  You can set break points  and attach to the Python process for debugging  If you want to debug without having to  attach to process   use  runserver --noreload  in your script arguments  However  the  --noreload  means you ll have to stop and restart the Django development web server manually  to recognize your code changes     This is a nice setup if you already use Visual Studio   Python Tools has been updated  It has built in support for Django now

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I made a blog post about NetBeans  new and upcoming support for Django  When paired with its already fantastic Python  JavaScript  HTML and CSS support  it s a strong candidate in my mind

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Sublime

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I am beginning to enjoy working with Aptana Studios   PyDev  and other  plugins for all sorts of web application development  As you can tell  it is built on top of the powerful Eclipse  but is tailor-designed to focus on web application development

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If you like Vim as an editor  here are some suggestions on how to tune it  up to the point of a full fledged IDE  for Django development  http   code djangoproject com wiki UsingVimWithDjango

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I really like E Text Editor as it s pretty much a  port  of TextMate to Windows  Obviously Django being based on Python  the support for auto-completion is limited  there s nothing like intellisense that would require a dedicated IDE with knowledge of the intricacies of each library   but the use of snippets and  word-completion  helps a lot  Also  it has support for both Django Python files and the template files  and CSS  HTML  etc   I ve been using E Text Editor for a long time now  and I can tell you that it beats both PyDev and Komodo Edit hands down when it comes to working with Django  For other kinds of projects  PyDev and Komodo might be more adequate though

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I made a blog post about NetBeans  new and upcoming support for Django  When paired with its already fantastic Python  JavaScript  HTML and CSS support  it s a strong candidate in my mind

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TextMate  Firebug  and pdb  The latter one saved me gazillion of times

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There is an actual Python extension for Visual Studio   http   pytools codeplex com    It s absolutely fantastic   It feels the same as if I were coding in any native Visual Studio language   The extension is even compatabile with Django   And best of all   it s totally free   Even for Visual Studio  it only requires the Visual Studio Shell to work  which is completely free

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NetBeans for Python is my current favorite  lighter and so much easier to install than Eclipse I found   Supports simple refactoring  autocompletion  errors warnings     Eclipse Aptana PyDev probably one of the most complete free IDE nowadays  haven t tested a lot   Wingware Python IDE a commercial IDE  which has some Django-specific project setup features the ability to debug Django template files   IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition another commercial IDE which has also a plugin for Python that is under heavy development  I saw some demo which look very promising on the auto-completion  for templates and Python    Vim which I still use a small touch-fix application  See also  Extra tweaks for Django

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I have consistently used Vim or Kate  but I would prefer a full-blown IDE  Given it is not as heavy as Visual Studio

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I use Kate as well  Kate s simplicity is its biggest feature  It doesn t get in your way   This is of course highly subjective opinion    Kate includes a Python code browser plugin  But it isn t useful IMO  No automatic updates when you change the code view  Also when you update  the whole tree is collapsed  and you have to expand it again yourself  Too many clicks   Instead  I use the Source Browser plugin that comes with P  t    It does cause Kate to freeze temporarily sometimes  but no crashes or anything of that sort so far   Shameless blog plug  more on using Django with Kate  P  t

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Well  I ve been using my own one  Recently they released an alpha version  Here it is at pfaide com

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