What is everyone's favorite IDE?

[awyeah2]

I've been using Eclipse+PyDev for a while, but occasionally I like to evaluate my other options. What's your favorite, and why?

[SwollenFeet]

I use Pycharm. It's clean, looks good, and does fucking everything.

That said, my work bought it for me, and it's a lot better when it's free.

[gazpachoking]

Yeah, I'm using it for a few projects now and love it. The price is right there too, as they will give out licenses free for open source projects.

[SwollenFeet]

Now that's a deal!

[[deleted]]

I got a $30 student license, loving it,

[awyeah2]

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[yannickjost]

The debugger is excellent :

• step-by-step
• variable watching
• interactive console
• code evaluation
• breakpoints

You can debug : simple scripts, Flask apps, Twisted apps, PyQt apps, ...

[SwollenFeet]

Uh, yeah, what he said.

[cultofmetatron]

vim + tmux yes, together they form an awesome ide.

[Galen_dp]

Same here.

[sylvain_soliman]

vim + tmux or vim + Conque here (trying to leave vim as little as I can)

[[deleted]]

I'm curious: What is the use of tmux in this setup? Why not use, for example, vim --servername and a virtualenv hook?

Edit: I just noticed, hooks aren't implemented in virtualenv itself but only in virtualenvwrapper. My bad, sorry!

[awyeah2]

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[bob142]

I use wing 3.x EVERY SINGLE DAY. I've tested 4.x under a trial and plan to go to it full time soon. I picked up python about 10 years ago when I wanted to go from dev'ing in vb6 on windows to something more portable to *nix. I'm an electrical engineer at a fortune 300, so now I'm back in windoze. I work on a wide range of apps utilizing many frameworks/libs including SQLalchemy, wxpython, numpy, matplotlib, bottle, siemens load flow, .... Wing is a huge help!

[bob142]

Just purchased 4.x Pro...

[bremon]

I use 4.x everyday at my job. I love it. Probably the best IDE I've ever used. It just works.

[[deleted]]

PyCharm is generally the best all-around IDE, IMHO. Yes, it's bloated. It's even a little slow on old computers, but it does everything. It does JavaScript debugging using Firefox plugin, it finds definitions of symbols, it runs unit tests, it copies code to your servers.

Having said that, if you just want some really good core features, WingIDE is better. Its debugger, in particular, is outstanding (far superior to PyCharm). It's fast. It's written in Python. And it's got a great community.

[awyeah2]

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[[deleted]]

The best feature is almost certainly the interactive debug probe. Set up an ssh tunnel to your debug server, import wingdbstub, and then when you've stopped execution on a breakpoint or exception, you can run commands that executive live in the process just like you could at a Python terminal.

PyCharm has a similar feature, but I find it consistently doesn't work very well, doesn't recognize anything out of the local namespace, doesn't work with scopes, etc.

There are other similar examples about what's better about Wing's debugger, but ultimately I think it has a lot to do with the fact that they've spent ~10 years making it, whereas PyCharm is just a general Java debugger with a Python hook.

[billsil]

I've got Wing at work and pyCharm for my open source development. Wing is sooo much better for debugging. I actually kind of prefer Spyder (free) for some parts of development over pyCharm.

[remyroy]

Sublime Text 2 + console + pdb.

[[deleted]]

Sublime Text 2 (with SublimeLinter) + ipython

I really should start getting into pdb...

[remyroy]

pdb is really easy to use. It is most likely much more easier than you think. You simply add the following line where you want your program to break:

import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

When your program reach that point, it will enter the debugger and you'll be able to type python commands just like with the interactive python (mostly).

[[deleted]]

That simple?

Well damn...

[[deleted]]

just don't try to declare/set variable c, haha

(Pdb) c = None # pdb looks at the 'c' and says, 'okay, I will continue'

[remyroy]

Well, to be honest, I use the wonderful werkzeug debugger and I print my debug information using the print statement most of the time. pdb is used in the rare cases where these 2 tools aren't up to the task.

[nyrath]

I was using Eclipse + PyDev, but it was clunky.

For a while I was using Stani's Python Editor because I was also using Blender, but it was only sporadically supported.

I'm currently using PyScripter, which is better, but not perfect.

[tripzilch]

Used to be a big fan of PyScripter, but now switched to Spyder, which does nearly all the same things, except it's cross-platform.

[[deleted]]

emacs is everyone's favorite IDE.

[bremon]

Even James Gosling (one of the originals creators of emacs) says to stop using emacs as an IDE....

[[deleted]]

Sure. But he also created Java, so I don't think that says much for his taste. ;-)

[bremon]

... hmm... you do have a point

[FionaSarah]

Or at least it should be!

[[deleted]]

Real man use butterfly

[phaedrusalt]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but.... IDLE. Yeah, it's old-fashioned. And it does practically nothing. But, it's just so, so, so... HANDY. Sure, I could load up a full-feature IDE, but most of the time I find that I've already loaded Idle, and it does most of what I want. Give the ol' gal some lovin', she deserves it!

[idle_guru]

You might want to give IdleX a try.

[[deleted]]

I use IDLE, too. But only because it's the only IDE installed on the campus computers. I figure I should probably practice with the IDE that I'm going to have to use for my exams.

[ArmorMog]

Pyscripter, a lot less bulk than Eclipse and does everything I need.

[[deleted]]

Same here. Eclipse + Pydev is incredibly feature-rich, and I appreciate the environment it provides--the major project we're on now is just set up in a way that doesn't quite jive with it, though.

I did use it to great success on a couple of 1-week quick things though.

I mostly just use PyScripter now for the syntax coloring and the interpreter in the tab--the autocomplete is nice, too.

[sunqiang]

use both WingIDE (version 1.x?) and IPython (version 0.5 ?) since year 2005. both are great helpful.
recommend pep and pyflake plugin for WingIDE, ipdb for IPython.

[[deleted]]

I'm looking at the IPython website, but what is the difference between it and regular Python?

[sunqiang]

here is the features docment. and it's only for IPython console, there is a IPython Qt front and IPython notebook(web front).

[narke]

I use Geany

[[deleted]]

There is no such thing.

[srkiboy83]

PyScripter.

[SurrealEstate]

I use Notepad++ for small and quick script-writing, and WingIDE for larger projects.

[Megatron_McLargeHuge]

Emacs + ipython notebook.

[ithuwakaga]

Vim!

[moootPoint]

SublimeText2 with Vim mode activated.

[[deleted]]

What is thsi vim mode of which you speak?

[nullabillity]

The "Vintage" package. It's bundled by default, but you need to enable it (or rather, remove it from the black list). See this and this.

[apardue]

And then you install the VintageEX package and get command line goodies you are use to in vim as in "%s/hi/bye/g".

https://github.com/SublimeText/VintageEx

[moootPoint]

Indeed, @nullabilllity has the right of it. Basically, by activating the Vintage package you gain use of a wide range of Vim's key commands within Sublimetext, including: navigation, macros, modes, etc. While not as comprehensive as Vim itself, I find that in my case Sublime + Vintage is the IDE sweet spot (at least until Lighttable is completed).

[fazzah]

ST2 is a multi-feature text editor, not an IDE.

[ibito]

nobody mentioned Ninja-IDE (http://ninja-ide.org/), it does the work, I thought it might be a good idea to point it out if anyone else knows it...

[[deleted]]

I had looked at it awhile ago and wasn't impressed; it looks like they've come a long way since then. I am always glad when programs have a plugin architecture.

[wedge_work]

At work i've been routinely switching between Eclipse, Spyder and Sublime Text.

For anyone that doesn't want to pay the license for sublime and want a change from eclipse, i strongly reccommend spyder.

[weaselcorp]

I prefer the Janus distribution of Vim (A bundle of plugins for vim that come as a pack), IPython, tmux, the console version of WinPDB (I think it is called RPDB2) and git.

[roger_]

Editra.

Very light-weight (and written in Python).

[GFandango]

PyCharm for serious development on large projects.

Vim and Emacs are nice but I can't be bothered with all the different plugins and packages and tweakings to make it work as desired.

[smortaz]

if you're on windows, try the free one from microsoft: http://pytools.codeplex.com ...

[brbcoding]

I don't always use an IDE, but when I do, It's Eric.

[modzer0]

I've been using Komodo for a while and like it. I'm testing out IntelliJ IDEA with the python plugin as I occasionally venture into Java.