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TKF is an awesome (world class?) python and emacs/elisp developer. His projects have helped tune my emacs into a decently powerful python development vehicle. However, the level of effort required to get the basic functionality of a modern IDE like Pycharm has been daunting and required hours upon hours of fiddling.

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Will you post links to some of these packages? I'm building up my Emacs Python toolkit after many years of being a Vim user (with liberal use of Evil mode of course! :-)

My favorite of TKF's packages is auto-complete: https://github.com/auto-complete/auto-complete

It's an elegant and very powerful extension of the built-in completion that works particularly well on reallyStupidlyLongMethodNames in programming languages - especially handy in conjunction with tags and cscope if you're jumping around a large codebase. Dunno if it plays well with Evil mode though.

Actually, auto-complete was written by Matsuyama (original author this article), though tkf has contributed to the project.

Evil is awesome, drastically reduces the chances of emacs pinky. To get a not-very-close, but good-enough to halfway-comparable setup of say Pycharm: Projectile/Helm for project management, Jedi.el, Use magit for git, virtualenv.el, nxhtml/mumamo for web stuff, snippet.el... then make sure you have pip installed jedi and python-epc. Then figure out how to use them. Ie. Activate the virtualenv inside emacs and go from there.

TKF's Emacs IPython Notebook is definitely worth checking out. Allows you to create and edit IPython notebooks in emacs, with inline graphics.

checkout http://tkf.github.io/emacs-jedi/

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