I know this is a bit off topic but my problem is definitely SL6 related.

The collaboration I work with does a lot of work in Python so I feel I 
should have a working familiarity although I have a strong bias against 
weakly typed dynamic languages.  I can use as much compile time checking 
as I can get.

I've been looking for an IDE with integrated editor, debugger and 
hopefully some documentation help that works with Python.  I do my C++, 
Java, html, css, javascript work in NetBeans but their Python support is 
not that great.

I've looked at Eric4 but there are version conflicts with released 
SL6.3. I think Eclipse and Spyder are my next experiments.

As far as I can tell there are no such IDEs in our repositories.

Is anyone using such an environment and happy with it?

I'd appreciate any and all comments and suggestions.

Thanks,
Joe