[openplatypus]

To be completely fair PyCharm is darn good with Python. PyLint will get you to quite comfortable place as well.

Thanks to this thread I just discovered the state of type hinting in Python 3.5.1 and I am super excited.

I can imagine working on huge code base and having a beef with Python but being a Java developer I think that would be using the tool incorrectly. The reason why I am saying this is that in Java world we (or some of us) work on large projects, we have multi-module projects with millions lines of code.

Whenever I think about Python project, I like to think that I would build series of small, independent modules. Maintain them separately. Thus limiting burden of dynamic language. In Java/JVM land you can achieve the same with small JARs. But we often don't (for various reasons).

TL;DR: There are more than decent tools for Python. Java =/= Python. Development approach matters.