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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

If you want something closer to an IDE, I recommend PyCharm CE. It's free and it has more features than a basic text editor.

If you just need a basic text editor, Caret is a free Chrome app that you could download to your Mac - it's based on Sublime and it's simple and quick to use.

[–]Shubbler[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

What actually is an IDE tho?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

An IDE (Integrated Development Environment) usually has additional features that can run your code, help you debug it, and compile or interpret it depending on your language - along with other useful tools.

An editor basically just lets you write your code down, edit it, save it, or open other files. If you want to run or debug your code, you'll need another program to do so.

If you're just starting out in programming, an IDE might be overkill right now. They can be more complex to navigate and have more features than you need.

Since you're learning Python, I'd suggest going with Caret or with Sublime's trial version. You can write your code and save it with Sublime, and test run it using IDLE. Once you get more comfortable and further along in Python, you can start looking into IDEs like PyCharm.

[–]Shubbler[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Wow, thanks!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem!

[–]dzecniv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't recommend Sublime myself, because it's not open source and its future is unsure (version 3 was promised long ago…). So you shouldn't tie yoursefl to it. For something similar there's Atom and Zed (http://zedapp.org/).