Django with Visual Studio

What's so perverse about that? Everybody I know who's tried it claims that VS with PTVS (<a href="http://pytools.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow">http://pytools.codeplex.com/</a>) is an excellent python dev environment.<p>edit: original title was editorialized to to claim that doing this was a perversion

The true perversion is that all the screen shots have the Solution Explorer docked to the righthand side of the window. It's hard to describe how fundamentally wrong that feels.

I think Visual Studio is the best IDE there, but I'm not sure I'd be more productive switching from a <i>nix based environment just for the IDE. Would anyone whose gone from </i>nix to windows for python web development be able to comment on the experience and tradeoffs?

I'm a .NET dev and I literally just gave this a try last week. I've been toying with Python on my Ubuntu laptop but I really wanted to see how this worked on Windows too. Visual Studio is by far my favorite IDE and being able to write Python in VS was pretty amazing!

Why are Visual Studio's menu's yelling at me?

"To complete this tutorial, you need a Windows Azure account"<p>yeah, right.

I'm curious to know how VS compares to PyCharm in terms of how rapidly the Python environment is able to restart after a code refresh.<p>It's been my personal experience that PyCharm's Run/Debug configuration is fast to restart in Run mode, but considerably slower in Debug mode, taking 5-10 seconds to restart and attach the debugger. So while I'd like to be able to work with breakpoints and inspection always available, in practice those tools have been harmful to my productivity.<p>If VS is better or faster in this regard, it might be worth a try.

Running a Hello World is easy<p>Maybe they got it to be easier in Azure, still, here's a couple of things they didn't show how to do and is usually a pain:<p>- serving static resources (easier with newer Django versions, still)<p>- serving in a subaddress (like serving it from mycloud.com/myapp)<p>- Using MSSQL with it (there are Django adaptors, but last time I tried there were some issues)

Someone changed the title. Any reason for that apart of some people not agreeing with my world views?

Just go download Komodo.<p>I regularly use Komodo Edit (100% Free) and it is pretty good, the IDE is even better if you want a more involved tool. This is probably my favourite for a "windows like" experience.

To think that people use an IDE for Python is sad news for me.

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