After a post I read on the python mailing list, where a developer was asking advice on the available python development enviroments, I thought it could be useful to write my thoughts about it. First I will write about what I think about Eclipse; then I will write about PyDev. When you choose to work with pydev, you enter in the Eclipse world. You can feel comfortable there, like having a very big guy as a friend, or you can think your python is going to be smashed under the Eclipse elephant. You'll have to check and see. First of all, be prepared to have a lot of memory and processor power available; forget to have less than 1 GB of memory, if you want to do any serious development; of course, Eclipse does not ask all that memory; but Firefox, Icedove, OpenOffice, KDE... all of them ask a lot of memory and horsepower too; and once you start using them all together, and you will do that, I'm sure you will do, Eclipse will ask for just more power. After that, you've Eclipse a