[heroprotagonist]

PyCharm's debug tools are top notch. It's based on PyDev, which is an alternative that can be used independently in other IDE, but it's really the integration with the IDE that makes it a much better alternative than using, say, PyDev in Eclipse or vim.

Here's a brief overview of PyCharm debugging functionality:

http://pedrokroger.net/python-debugger/

I really like the ease of use for remote debugging. It's essential in helping to maintain a Linux development environment that closely resembles production while actually coding on a work laptop that runs Windows. Beyond that, I often use the remote functionality to run one-off scripts to retrieve and process data from a production Django system (though, generally this is restricted to 'read' operations unless it's been tested in dev).