Exactly, it doesn't have to get in your way and that is what PyCharm is doing. Interestingly, after buying i had the need for some easy python debugging and was

Exactly, it doesn't have to get in your way and that is what PyCharm is doing. Interestingly, after buying i had the need for some easy python debugging and was surprised how well it works, even "remotely" on a vagrant machine. The vagrant and remote deployment/debugging integration is probably the feature i love most. Oh.. and the virtualenv/pip integration. ;) p.s.: the discount (of all jetbrains products!) was around december 21st.