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Thank you for this. Personally I use Sublime and it does a lot of the things the article mentions, but I will take a look at PyCharm. We use vagrant and salt s

Thank you for this. Personally I use Sublime and it does a lot of the things the article mentions, but I will take a look at PyCharm. We use vagrant and salt stack to maintain a consistent development environment across developers as well as our production environment. It works very well, and gets new developers going in no time. I'll write a blog post about this on the Opbeat blog sometime.

oellegaard 14y ago
I use Sublime all the time, as well, but mostly for small projects. For instance, on one of my current projects we have a 600+ line models.py - then you really start to appreciate the CMD+click jump to definition ;) I will be looking forward to your blog post. Considered Salt as well, but didn't get a chance to take a proper look yet. We use puppet for now, also with Vagrant.
- heidar 14y ago
  I believe the SublimeCodeIntel plugin will give you the alt+click functionality. It says so in the documentation at least: https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel - I haven't tried it though.
- mwarkentin 14y ago
  Sublime Text 3 has jump to definition built in.
d23 14y ago
Just wanted to throw in some love for Komodo Edit. It's 100% free and awesome. It doesn't force you into the whole "save a project before you can do anything" paradigm (though to be fair, I have no idea if PyCharm does this either), and it just feels more complete than Sublime for a full IDE.
- gknoy 14y ago
  Komodo is pretty awesome, but I though I'd chime in with the perspective of someone who switched from Komodo Edit to PyCharm last month. I've been using Komodo Edit for nearly a year, and was quite happy with it as a Python editor. (Our build and test utils are all in makefiles and other scripts, so I run them on the command line.) It's an all-around awesome editor. I switched to PyCharm a month ago and am EXTREMELY happy with it. I have not touched Komodo since then. The ONLY things I miss from Komodo are syntax highlighting of $Everything (e.g. Makefiles, Bash scripts, Perl, etc) and the ability to easily open files from elsewhere (e.g. /tmp/foo.bar). Both are things that Jetbrains have said detracts from their focus of delivering an awesome __Python__ IDE -- and I grudgingly agree. PyCharm is more polished than I'd dreamed - so much so that this is the first time I've been willing to spend money on an editor in over a decade. If you already have an existing project folder, you don't need to create a new Workspace or Project -- just open that folder.
lost_name 14y ago
For what it's worth, I picked up PyCharm on a whim during JetBrains' doomsday sale in December. I haven't done any serious Django development yet (still learning), but as an IDE I thoroughly enjoy it. As a daytime Java developer I'm seriously considering picking up their Java IDE because of the quality. Just to reiterate, this is coming from someone new to Django, not a power user.

oellegaard 14y ago

I use Sublime all the time, as well, but mostly for small projects. For instance, on one of my current projects we have a 600+ line models.py - then you really start to appreciate the CMD+click jump to definition ;) I will be looking forward to your blog post. Considered Salt as well, but didn't get a chance to take a proper look yet. We use puppet for now, also with Vagrant.

heidar 14y ago
I believe the SublimeCodeIntel plugin will give you the alt+click functionality. It says so in the documentation at least: https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeCodeIntel - I haven't tried it though.
mwarkentin 14y ago
Sublime Text 3 has jump to definition built in.

d23 14y ago

Just wanted to throw in some love for Komodo Edit. It's 100% free and awesome. It doesn't force you into the whole "save a project before you can do anything" paradigm (though to be fair, I have no idea if PyCharm does this either), and it just feels more complete than Sublime for a full IDE.

gknoy 14y ago
Komodo is pretty awesome, but I though I'd chime in with the perspective of someone who switched from Komodo Edit to PyCharm last month. I've been using Komodo Edit for nearly a year, and was quite happy with it as a Python editor. (Our build and test utils are all in makefiles and other scripts, so I run them on the command line.) It's an all-around awesome editor. I switched to PyCharm a month ago and am EXTREMELY happy with it. I have not touched Komodo since then. The ONLY things I miss from Komodo are syntax highlighting of $Everything (e.g. Makefiles, Bash scripts, Perl, etc) and the ability to easily open files from elsewhere (e.g. /tmp/foo.bar). Both are things that Jetbrains have said detracts from their focus of delivering an awesome __Python__ IDE -- and I grudgingly agree. PyCharm is more polished than I'd dreamed - so much so that this is the first time I've been willing to spend money on an editor in over a decade. If you already have an existing project folder, you don't need to create a new Workspace or Project -- just open that folder.

lost_name 14y ago

For what it's worth, I picked up PyCharm on a whim during JetBrains' doomsday sale in December. I haven't done any serious Django development yet (still learning), but as an IDE I thoroughly enjoy it. As a daytime Java developer I'm seriously considering picking up their Java IDE because of the quality. Just to reiterate, this is coming from someone new to Django, not a power user.