Best opensource IDE for building applications on Google App Engine? [closed]

Question

Looking to dabble with GAE and python, and I'd like to know what are some of the best tools for this - thanks!

Answer 1

I would spend the time and learn something like emacs. The learning curve is a bit higher, but once you get used to it, you can develop from any terminal. It has fantastic support for python and many other libraries.

You have to remember that Python is a dynamically typed language so the traditional IDE is not really the answer since those are mostly designed for statically typed languages. Basically you want something that has syntax highlighting, compilation and maybe some shortcuts and macros to make life easier for you... emacs has all of this :)

I would Google "Emacs Python" to get started.

If you really don't want to use emacs, I would look at PyDev. It's an extension to the eclipse IDE that let's you write python code. Some of my friends that do Django work have had good luck with that one.

Hope this helps.

Good luck with GAE.