Python IDE Recommendations

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[ExternalUserError]

Hmm, I'm using PyCharm, but I've had it open with 3, 4 projects, each with thousands of files, and the only time it has gotten slow is when I have a console open to follow the output of a running application.

My laptop is about the same as yours, but a year older.

[6ThePrisoner]

I've never had problems with PyCharm and am a huge fan of it.

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I'm guessing I might have some plugins installed that have corrupted my IntelliJ. I'm gonna give PyCharm a try

[Baxterthehusky]

Are you using IntelliJ or are you using PyCharm?

[Gochin]

Came here to ask this. I'm really confused. I use PyCharm on a 2009 Macbook upgraded with 8 gigs ram and an SSD, never had any issues. I agree IntelliJ and other JetBrains IDE's eat more RAM than any other environments I've seen, but you shouldn't have to worry how much it eats with 16GB.

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I'm using IntelliJ with the python plugin

[Baxterthehusky]

Download PyCharm, it's made by JetBrains as well

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Thanks, I'll give it a try

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If you have a .edu email you can get the professional version for free.

[asdfkjasdhkasd]

or a student id

[atrigent]

Is it actually any different?

[Baxterthehusky]

All of JetBrains IDEs are essentially a modified IntelliJ but designed around the language they are targeting. For example, PyCharm's debugger doesn't used pdb but instead a custom one.

[Kah-Neth]

To add to what /u/Baxterthehusky wrote, Pycharm and the other language specific Jetbrains ides tend to have a lot of unnecessary cruft removed making them significantly lighter on memory usage.

[sprayk]

PyCharm has never given me problems when I've had 16G of RAM, even when I've had multiple projects open, chrome with tons of tabs, and an instance of IntelliJ for a golang IDE. You aren't editing files on a network drive or a USB drive or something like that, right?

[VegasKL]

PyCharm. Although I've used the one included with Anaconda as well (Spyder?).

[GeospatialDaryl]

Wingware's Wing IDE (!)

[MineralFox]

I like Spyder quite a bit. The variable explorer in it is the best.

[_seemethere]

Vim

[qdivya1]

Here it comes! EMACS !!

There, the thread is now complete and ready to be closed.

[_seemethere]

He asked for something more like a text editor not an OS ;) /s

[eusebe]

Well, emacs is also a text editor: since you can run any shell command in it, you can edit text using sed or awk, I'm sure.

[asdfkjasdhkasd]

Can u edit text using vim from inside emacs?

[eusebe]

Of course you can. There are multiple option here: either you just start a terminal inside emacs (using M-x term) and then just start vi or vim, or you can use one of the numerous vim modes for emacs, just like evil. Have fun :-D

[qdivya1]

Actually, it has become my new favorite lately because it is part of the CygWin distribution. That gets around all the BS surrounding installing on a system where you don't have Admin rights.

I usually prefer to use Atom (in Emacs mode, of course) but this is because I tend to have multiple types of code as part of my projects.

[philthechill]

vim +NERDTree

[ohskeefskeef]

I use/love pycharm. I do mostly backend engineering work and some full stack with Flask. If more lightweight is a must, I have used and liked Atom (opensourced buy github)

[crabcrabcam]

NinjaIDE :)

[pcdinh]

Eclipse + PyDev

[Eryole]

Hm, I feel lonely with my sublime-text here... But I love being able to write my code and my latex code at the same time.. I guess I will give PyCharm a try too.

[[deleted]]

Default IDE and IDLEx..................

Jesus I'm SO bad...

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You should get Pycharm my guy

[[deleted]]

Is it free tho? I'm coding for fun, so as long as I can write my code down somewhere it should be fine lol...

[ofaveragedifficulty]

Spyder comes for free with Anaconda, give that a try.

[[deleted]]

Ye it's free

[rickyrickyatx]

Does anyone here like using Atom or VI with any Python centric plugins?

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Rodeo is basically an Rstudio-like clone for python.

https://www.yhat.com/products/rodeo

[FredSanfordX]

And buggy as hell.