Best IDE for Python?

[sushant.sirsikar]

hi,
I want to know which is the best IDE for python.Please if
possible mention the features of the IDE.
Thank You.
Sushant

 

[Ravi Teja]

This topic has come up a few dozen times at the least. Please use
google to search for the threads.

People have their preferences. The best way to choose is to try several
by yourself. Most of them are free.

http://wiki.python.org/moin/IntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments

 

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

hi,
I want to know which is the best IDE for python.Please if
possible mention the features of the IDE.

The best IDE is the one that YOU can be most productive in. What /I/
find useful may not be of interest to /you/.
--

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

The best IDE is the one that YOU can be most productive in. What /I/
find useful may not be of interest to /you/.

nonsense. emacs is the best tool for everyone!

</F>

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

The best IDE is the one that YOU can be most productive in. What /I/
find useful may not be of interest to /you/.

nonsense. vim is the best tool for everyone!

</F>

 

[Robert Kern]

nonsense. emacs is the best tool for everyone!

Fool! vim+zsh is obviously superior in every way! ;-)

--
Robert Kern
(e-mail address removed)

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco

 

[bruno at modulix]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:




nonsense. emacs is the best tool for everyone!

Nonsense ! *Ed* is the the standard editor !

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

Nonsense ! *Ed* is the the standard editor !

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

unless you're on Windows, where edlin is the true standard editor.

as you can see, Microsoft's usability team has made some massive
improvements (note how well it deals with the "eat flaming death"
command):

C:\> edlin
Filename missing.

C:\> edlin spam
New file.
*help
Syntax error.
*quit
Do you want to abort (Yes=Y, No=N)? n
Syntax error.
*exit

C:\>edlin spam
End of input file.
*hello?
Syntax error.
*eat flaming death

C:\>edlin foo
End of input file.

*^C

*^C

*^D
Syntax error.
*^Z
Syntax error.

*^C

*^C

 

[Duncan Booth]

as you can see, Microsoft's usability team has made some massive
improvements (note how well it deals with the "eat flaming death"
command):

I especially like the way running it messes up the prompt:

C:\Documents and Settings\Duncan>edlin
File name must be specified

C:\DOCUME~1\Duncan>

Yup, wanting to run something that archaic means you must also want to not
see those fancy filenames.

 

[bruno at modulix]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:




I especially like the way running it messes up the prompt:

C:\Documents and Settings\Duncan>edlin
File name must be specified

C:\DOCUME~1\Duncan>

Yup, wanting to run something that archaic means you must also want to not
see those fancy filenames.

Fancy filenames ? WHO needs fancy filenames ? FANCYF~1.EXT filenames
should be enough for anybody !-)

 

[Ant]

On a more useful note, I'll assume you're not already a vim or emacs
zealot, since you are asking the question ;-) and give my tips:

SPE seems to be the best (free) python IDE out there at the moment,
though the text editor component is pretty basic. I personally use
jEdit, since it has a superb editor component, and Python plugins which
make developing in python very comfortable, such as a (cpython and
jython) debugger, and a Jython plugin which allows scripting of jEdit
in python (well, jython - so you'll miss a few of the newer language
features when scripting jEdit itself.

None of the pure python IDE's/editors out there come close to the likes
of jEdit, vim or emacs in terms of pure editing power.

 

[kbperry]

I have recently been trying out NewEdit, and it is a pretty good "IDE"
for Python.

The reason that I have it in quotes is because I haven't really found a
true IDE (like the way Eclipse behaves for Java) for python. (I
realize that Eclipse has a plug-in for Python, too).

 

[kbperry]

To me, it just doesn't behave the same way as Eclipse for java. I have
used the plug-in, and I usually use it on my home machine ( I am still
a student). For example, in Java eclipse, if you import a module like
math, then if you want to use a math function, you just type math +
period, and then all the functions pop up in a scroll menu. I love
this. I am not searching through online documentation...etc just to
find some stupid method/function that I know is there. It doesn't seem
to behave like this for Python....I wish it did.

I still love programming in Python, though.

 

[Mystilleef]

Good luck finding the best Python IDE.

While you are at it, have a look at Scribes. It's great for Python
editing and it's even written in Python. If you appreciate KISS, I'm
positive you'd appreciate Scribes. And if you yearn for an editor that
doesn't get in your way, or that allows you to focus exclusively on
coding, then it is for you.

http://scribes.sf.net/

GIF Demo: http://www.minds.may.ie/~dez/images/blog/scribes.html

Flash Demo: http://scribes.sf.net/snippets.htm

 

[Adam DePrince]

nonsense. emacs is the best tool for everyone!

Emacs? Wait, I didn't post anything? Could this mean I'm not alone!

- Adam

 

[Szabolcs Nagy]

ide unification effort:
http://pyxides.stani.be/
(there are some useful links and it's more recent than the python.org
wiki)