This is certainly a worthy topic. There are several IDEs for Python (one I like very much being Komodo) that have plenty of fancy debugging features and advanced operations, however I have yet to encounter (elsewhere) the convenience that comes with being able to press F5 and have an interactive interpreter load my code and be ready for testing.
That said, that is my only reason for my ever using IDLE. Without it I would probably forget that IDLE exists, were it not for the obnoxious context menu entry. ;) -- Daniel Bickett dbickett at gmail.com http://heureusement.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list