IBM DeveloperWorks has a nice article up about Python development with Eclipse and Ant. This makes me pretty happy because I had been looking for a decent way to use Python with Eclipse and it looks as though there finally is one. The question now is, do I want to remain a preacher in the Church of Emacs, or should I backslide and start using Eclipse?
On the plus side, I can use Emacs over a telnet/ssh session. I suppose I could with Eclipse too, but it would be horribly slow. Also, I believe that Emacs has better key bindings, or at least ones that I’m more used to. However, one thing that I really wish Emacs had was code completion. It makes it a lot easier for writing code. Usually when playing with a new Python library, I end up having to use an instance of IPython or PyAlaMode to get the information.