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Doug Hellmann wonders what tools Python developers find more necessary to their work these days. In my case I would say vim, which got a lot of votes on Doug's comments page. Also, I would probably be out of business if Google didn't exist.

Of the tools mentioned on his site, I've used Wing IDE sometimes and I think it's cool, but somehow I always end up going back to vim. I might try out ipython one of these days, to find out the reason why it got a so many votes.

On the Zope/Plone front, I'd say zc.buildout is becoming one of the more important tools for development and deployment. I don't think I use any Zope or Plone specific tools besides that.

I am a Linux guy, but I guess we are becoming a minority on the Zope/Plone community with OSX growing in popularity (incidentally, call it envy, but I think the Mac experience has to be out of this world for Python developers to accept, and pay big bucks for, an OS with things like broken readline support for the Python interpreter). What tools do OSX developers find invaluable for Python work? Is there anything out there that makes Zope/Plone development easier on that OS?