I had the same thought. I'm starting to use an iPad for a sideproject using Django.

In my workflow I'm using Working Copy to manage my repositories and Pythonista to code. I'm just starting but it's been a nice surprice. It is far more pleasant than I expected.

Does it need to have an Internet connection?

Working copy needs internet connection to clone the repos and commit the changes back, but meanwhile it doesn't need it.

And Pythonista doesn't need internet connection to function.

My issue is that I won’t have an Internet connection on the train and would have to launch servers locally. Is there something that would allow me to do it?