Python Decisions

A couple posts ago I went on about the software decision between OpenOffice and Office 2003. Today I am trying to make the decision between IDEs and I am hoping someone can give me some advice. I’ve used WingIDE and I’ve used Komodo, PyAlaCarte, and Pythonwin, but have been unsatisfied. When I first used WingIDE I was in love, but recently I found that the auto-completion doesn’t include the items I need when I need them. I read something about another IDE called SPE or Stani’s Python Editor and so far I am very impressed. It runs quick, the code completion is very good and it has a lot of nice features. I wouldn’t say that it is the greatest, WingIDE seems to complete the imports while SPE and Komodo havn’t been. I will most likely purchase a WingIDE license sometime either that or just use it on open source projects, for which they provide a free OSS developer license.

I have three main technology goals for 2007:

- Learn Python
- Learn Linux; primarily Slackware
- Prepare for a MySQL Certification by 2008