wraithdu Posted February 15, 2013 Posted February 15, 2013 I'd like to branch out a bit and learn Python. I'm looking for some opinions on a good (and free) IDE to start with - Windows compatible, something actively developed and preferably with a GUI builder; a good library for interacting with Windows - win32 API, COM (maybe PyWin32); and a preferred GUI framework that won't make every app HUGE with framework DLLs - wxPython, Tk, Qt. Thanks in advance!
Richard Robertson Posted February 16, 2013 Posted February 16, 2013 IronPython is a Visual Studio/.Net IDE version of Python. I'd recommend it if only for the Visual Studio part. Only thing I'm not seeing is a GUI builder. Give it a try since it's free, if you don't like it, there are plenty of other options.
wraithdu Posted February 16, 2013 Author Posted February 16, 2013 I've also seen Eclipse with PyDev recommended, and I think I set that up a long time ago on an old machine but never used it. Opinions on that? It seems more actively developed than IronPython.
Richard Robertson Posted February 17, 2013 Posted February 17, 2013 (edited) I absolutely hate Eclipse. Another one I would recommend looking in to is Monodevelop. Apparently it has Python support and I know at least the IDE has GUI builder support. Dunno if it has extended to Python though. Edited February 17, 2013 by Richard Robertson
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