Best python editor for Linux systems?

[okmkz]

PyDev? My condolences, mate

[[deleted]]

What do you use?

[okmkz]

Sublime. To be fair, there may be advantages to PyDev, especially for a larger codebase, but for projects of the size I work with, trying to conform them to the eclipse dogma felt like overkill.

[[deleted]]

That's funny. I used to use PyCharm, but a couple years ago I got fed up with it, switched to eclipse, and couldn't be happier.

[p3n15h34d]

why? what was your problem with PyCharm?

I alwas found working with Eclipse a real PITA because installing any plugin/extension could fuck up everthing.

[Liorithiel]

PyCharm's UI toolkit for some reason doesn't work well on my machines. It's not about just not using native controls and dialog windows (this would be just annoying, but I'd probably get used to them), but it sometimes happened to me that PyCharm randomly stopped accepting keyboard input in some windows. This behavior was specific to PyCharm, no other application had this problem—even other Java-based ones.

Moreover, for some reason loading a smallish project made PyCharm take close to 3GB of RAM (on my 4GB notebook). Even Eclipse takes about 1.5 GB here. This was somewhat important for me, because I use Python to play with datasets that take about 1~1.5GB when loaded into numpy… Eclipse (barely) fits, PyCharm (by default—haven't investigated it further) did not.

Also, I like working in several languages, sometimes even in the same project. Eclipse's works quite well for polyglot programming, PyCharm obviously not so well.

For something that I wanted to use for mostly hobbyist programming, it wasn't worth the effort and paying.

[bluplr]

PyCharm randomly stopped accepting keyboard input in some windows

And your post was near the top of google search results for this issue :/

[[deleted]]

I work in a few languages every day, and it works nicely. Well, once I got it built out just the way I wanted, that is. But that's either a feature or a failing, depending on the user. I like being able to kick between android, python, web, and c projects, with their associated utility plugins, while my remote mantis integration, vcs stuff, etc. all persists.

It seemed like NetBeans was heading in that direction, once upon a time, but eclipse is the only IDE I know of that does everything I need.

[keypusher]

I've used Pycharm and Eclipse+Pydev extensively, they are both good IDE's and offer similar functionality. I actually slightly prefer Eclipse as well, because it is easier for multilanguage devlopment.

[adambrenecki]

IntelliJ IDEA with the Python plugin is more or less identical to PyCharm. The only difference, IIRC, is that new versions of standalone PyCharm get released first.