Best Python IDE and Code Editors?

Eduard Lebedyuk · Jul 29, 2019

I use Pycharm for complicated projects and debugging and bash for quick scripting.

Also check PythonGateway - it comes with integrated Python interpreter right in your IRIS terminal.

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Douglas Foster · Jul 30, 2019

I am similar to Andrew in that I use PyCharm for my big projects as it helps manage multiple venvs for me. Which means I don't install all the different packages I am playing with site-wide to avoid issues. I am typically wrapping my Python into Docker, so this works well, and PyCharm also helps maintain/monitor my requirements.txt file in the venv, which then ensures that when I build the docker, I can pip install -r requirements.txt and know I have everything I need.

I use Notepad++ if all I want to do is a tiny script or just want to look at something I did, as PyCharm can take a while to open, so if I am not really writing code, it isn't worth opening up.

I am not using Jupyter notebooks for my "hacky" stuff and ML, as it makes it easy to have a couple of lines of code and print results. So, if I am just testing something, or learning some new trick, it is really easy to iterate a line or two of code, or compare outputs, etc.

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Eduard Lebedyuk · Aug 5, 2019

What does autocompletion has to do with learning (or not learning) a language?

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Andrew Downing · Jul 29, 2019

For me, the best Python IDE I have used to date has been PyCharm.

It performs quite well,
the integrated debugger is very effective and easy to understand,
it neatly handles multiple concurrent versions of Python installations being available and being used in different projects at the same time,
the community edition is fully functional enough that you can really get into it and achieve big productivity gains without necessarily forking out any big bucks.
Integrated support for PyUnit testing
Integrated support for source control (e.g. Git)
Integrated Python console
it handles Python 2 as well as 3, even doing Python 3 syntax highlighting in Python 2 to get you compatible for upgrading
it can have multiple projects open concurrently.
On the down-side, it may take a minute or two for it to re-integrate all the symbols etc, from a new or updated Python installation.

For lighter weight project, I like Atom, but the frequency with with lightweight projects get heavy enough to require PyCharm is such that I've ended up just creating a "Hacks" project with multiple sub-projects for all those hacky little Python things I want to try out. PyCharm is great for that too because I can trivially create independent launch setups for every file in a project, even specifying different Python interpreters for each one.

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Sergey Lukyanchikov · Jul 29, 2019

Hi Arjun, I use directly Ensemble (see below). Takes a couple of days to get the full taste, but afterwards it is hard to get back to "linear" IDEs.

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Rohan Joshi · Aug 5, 2019

Hi Arjun Kumar,

I don't recommend an IDE for the complete beginner because it automatically completes your half-written word thus not letting you learn them well. Of course, you can disable the autocomplete feature. But, I think a beginner should work close to the metal. And as they developed into intermediate they can use IDE's because usually at that stage simple text editors won't suffice. Long story short, a beginner should use IDLE because it is builtin and it has basic features. But, if you insist for more complete IDE PyCharm is the best.

Features of PyCharm:

Intelligent Python editor
Graphical debugger and test runner
Navigation and Refactorings
Code inspections
VCS support
Scientific tools
Web development
Python web frameworks
Python Profiler
Remote development capabilities
Database & SQL support

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Robert Developer · Mar 19, 2021

For my recommendation pycharm is the best Python IDE.

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