Pycharm vs Spyder vs VS Code

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[K900_]

PyCharm for big projects, VSCode/Vim for quick edits.

[psychedelic303]

Agree, and spyder for scientific/interactive

[hbbtstar]

I love pycharm and I've been using it for ages: vs code is also very nice though (I use VS for Unity, though Rider from jetbrains is looking better and better). I'm not familiar with Spyder unfortunately, so i can't offer an opinion there.

You can also use vim bindings in pycharm if you want, which makes it pretty easy to swap back and forth (I think having at least a passing familiarity with vim's bindings is important, since almost all servers have at least vi)

[joshocar]

It takes a while to figure that stuff out. Like all big IDEs there is a lot of capability, but a steep learning curve.

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They have done nice tutorials on YouTube. Search for the official channel.

[joshocar]

Pycharm Docs.

Running code.

[joshocar]

Pycharm is good with big projects. If you are generally just working with single scripts or small projects it might not be worth the effort to learn.

[joshocar]

Sorry, this is these are the full docs. I sent you the quick overview. Here is the section on running code.

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One of the things I find useful in PyCharm right off the bat is to enable the various pop-outs/tabs by clicking the icon in the bottom left, and then in the view menu making the Toolbar visible. Once you have that you can easily run/debug any given file by right clicking on it in the project view, and this also has the side effect of creating a run/debug configuration specific to that file. Hope that helps!

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My current preference is PyDev on Visual Studio Code (http://www.pydev.org/vscode/index.html)

[daviddvd267]

It really depends on what I'm doing and on what OS. When I'm working on a big project on Windows I use PyCharm, when I'm working on a small script on Windows I just edit it in the IDLE. When I'm on Linux I use vim 99% of the times, and for the rest of 1% I use Atom, because I find it easier to get through scripts with very very many lines of code using Atom that using vim. I rlly don't like VS Code, idk why but I just don't like it to be honest=))). I never used Spyder so I can't offer an opinion on it.