What do you find is the best text editor for Python software development? I've tried several, and I'm always frustrated by the limitations of each. Eclipse is cool, but it's huge and I've had multiple problems with corruption of the workspace. It got so bad at one point that every week or so I was tearing it down and recreating it. I spent so much time re-creating Eclipse's workspace that I found any productivity gains were lost due to Eclipse's brokenness.

I've also done the Emacs thing. Emacs is cool, but I found that I missed code browsing. So then I installed the Emacs Code Browser, Semantic and associated elisp code and found that it didn't work right half the time. I also seem to prefer either vi/Vim style editors, CUA-style editors, or WordStar-style editors.

Unfortunately, there are no GUI WordStar-style editors and none of them are cross-platform with Windows.

So, that left me with Scintilla/SCiTE. Which is nice, but, the code browsing doesn't seem to be able do autocomplete with PyGTK (to be fair, Eclipse's didn't work so well, either in that regard, at least not on the default Ubuntu install)

SCiTE loads fast, does nice Python highlighting, and has the ability to run code right from the browser. Unforutnately, unlike Eclipse or Emacs, there's no ability to do step/trace style debugging. *sigh*

So, okay, does anyone have any other ideas?

I had the same problem on another machine with an upgraded 9.2x profile on 9.52 (and probably any 9.5x version) Basically, in summary, you login to the main page, but when you click on one of the 'sections' (i.e., 'yro.slashdot.org') your cookies don't follow you for some reason. Since you won't find the solution to this anywhere else I'm going to post it here: the solution is to delete your Opera profile and let Opera re-create it. Not my favorite solution, but it works.

When logged into the main page here (slashdot.org), whenver I go to the section pages (i.e., developers.slashdot.org), I end up browsing as an anonymous user, because Opera 9.52 doesn't seem to be sending the cookies for Slashdot.org. This didn't occur in 9.2x or 9.51, but I think I've seen it in other past Opera versions.

It doesn't seem to matter what I set my cookies preference to. Even if I globally set it to 'Accept cookies', and delete all my site preferences, it doesn't seem to matter.

I've tried clearing my cache and cookies, restarting all that jazz.

Any ideas? Anyone?

There is a nice play-by-play of the first day of the SCO v. Novell proceedings today in Judge Kimball's courtroom on Groklaw. An excellent, one-sentence summary of SCO's defense argument appears in PJ's commentary:

The pretense, in other words, as I see it, is that by pointing to the SYS V code in UnixWare and pretending it didn't come from UNIX, that somehow it got divorced from System V once it was put in UnixWare, SCO can contend that it owes Novell nothing.

Wow. So according to SCO, if I make a derivative of a GPL work, say, the Linux kernel, i can then take someone else's original code and license it to third parties anyway I see fit without compensation or permission from the copyright holder because I took the code from my derivative work, and not from the original? Just...wow. That has got to be the stupidest argument I have ever heard.

Does Slashdot suck? No, really I mean it. Are the stories as good as they used to be? Are the real geeks and hackers still here? Does it just seem to be a big time waster?

What do you think?

I know you guys don't care much for sports, and this isn't really about sports, but about American politics, and I find it fascinating. One in five people in a recent Bay News 9 poll actually think that Congress should be handling the issue of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball.

I know the other 80 percent think that MLB should handle it, but damn. 19%. The number is staggering -- think about it. One in five think that the government should be handling something that is clearly an internal affair of a private business -- specifically Major League Baseball.

If it were discovered that half of Microsoft's employees were on methamphetamines, do you think that Congress would be holding hearings? No, of course not. They'd expect Microsoft to handle it.

Why should Major League Baseball be any different?

Scientific American this month is offering a quantum physics experiment you can do at home. It's a variation of the classic double-slit experiment that uses nothing more than a laser pointer, some polarizing film and a thin wire.

Guess again.

This announcement comes to quickly on the heels of the Apple -> Intel announcement. Don't you think IBM would have tried to persuade Apple to stay with PowerPC chips?

Well, there they are. The chips Apple wanted: the low power G5 and the dual-core G5. Do you think IBM developed those for other customers?

Get over it, fanboys: this about pricing and profit.

I think Apple is intending to move themselves out of the high-end niche market and go head-to-head with the likes of Dell and HP. Soon we'll see $299 Intel Mac boxes that can run Mac OS X and Windows. Apple may even obtain an Microsoft OEM license for Windows XP (Longhorn?)

It's over. The Apple Mystique is gone. Get over it.