Can I do Django & Python web development using Xcode 3.2?

Question

I'm not sure but I believe that Python is -next to Objective-C- somewhat natural to Mac OSX and the Xcode IDE. I might be wrong. So is it a good idea to use Xcode for Django / Python web development when I'm already a bit familiar with Xcode? Actually I only do iPhone dev with it, but now I need a website and I stumbled over Django / Python. I don't want to "fall back" to PHP again, because just everyone and his dog does that already. Want to give Django / Python a try ;)

Answer 1

I wouldn't suggest XCode for python/django development - it's another world. An editor may be sufficient. A list of IDEs for python can be found here: What IDE to use for Python?

Answer 2

You can use XCode to program on Django, as it's plain Python 2.x and XCode is a good tool for Python.

Make sure that you learn the pythonic constructs before trying to make advanced things with Django, as you might be trying to bend the framework to do some things that the language already does.