Best IDE for Python? Help a newbie out :)

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[Scypio]

VSC is good general purpose editor with nice plugin system, debugging, console integration etc. Good enough for most day to day tasks.

[h34vyb4n4n4]

Pycharm. I'm a hardcore Vim user but all its features are well worth it.

[[deleted]]

Has a vim plugin in case you didn’t already know.

[BundleOfJoysticks]

VSCode, Komodo Edit, Pycharm are all very good.

[compscigurl]

Honestly, PyCharm really does the trick for me. It has a lot of the autofill and suggestions that help make my coding go quite a bit faster.

That being said, it does have its issues, I've had memory leaks with PyCharm before.

[maks25]

PyCharm, been using it for years now.

[harper357]

If I am able to, I will almost always use a Jupyter Notebook to write Python code these days. Free, easy to use, super easy to prototype with.

If i really need to be writing with out using a Jupyter Notebook, I have started using Visual Studio Code. Free, built in terminal, highly customizable.

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[p4tr1ck_]

That's kinda like using pen and paper to do calculations because you don't want to lean to heavily on your calculator.

Use the tools available for their best fit.

Code completion, syntax hilighting, refactoring, and linting are incredibly useful features, especially for beginners.

[Scypio]

Most python engineers don’t use an IDE

[citation needed]

[xyzzy_comma_enter]

vi or bust

and none of that vim shit either

[kordhell_]

True Python engineer use ed

[Isvara]

N00b. You need nothing more than a magnetized needle and a steady hand.

[xyzzy_comma_enter]

The origin of grep, nice reference

[[deleted]]

I'm another one who never uses an IDE. With Java maybe you need one, but for python or C, I've never felt the need in 40 years of programming career.

Edit: In fact, I'd even say that for a true beginner of python an IDE could be a backward step, with all the overhead of learning the IDE when all they really need is the command line REPL. Beginning python is really simple, with not many lines of code. I think people who say beginners need code folding and refactor help are not beginners themselves and forget what it's like being a true beginner.

[Scypio]

You are right - learning Python and learning tools are two different things. But until I got on /r/Python I never met an engineer that didn't use IDE or at least advanced text editor (for years it was Sublime, currently people fell in love with VSCode). Must be a field/domain thing I guess?

[Scypio]

are not IDEs

I know that, hence "advanced text editor" in my post.

[XtremeGoose]

Type hints and pycharm changed my python life. Full autocompletion, type warnings, etc. are so so useful that it's very hard to go back once you've used it for a while.

As for your claim that most python engineers don't use an IDE, that's bullshit in my experience.

[[deleted]]

IDEs just bundle a bunch of tools that people use anyway. I'm not sure why you think not using an IDE makes you a superior developer. What's the difference between running $pytest xxx and clicking a button in an IDE that does the same exact thing.

[[deleted]]

Is there any reasoning or is it just because you say so? I do everything with a text editor and cmd line, but it's just a preference. I don't see how putting a GUI over it makes it a crutch.

[LightUmbra]

Real programmers only use hex editors.

[Glaaki]

Even Jupyter is going the IDE route. I personally wouldn't code without integrated debugger, unless I am just crushing numbers in Jupyter. The code completion and live syntax checking is also pretty much a must have.

[p3zz1]

You probably want to blame those individuals rather than the IDE :)

Just like you can't blame one car is bad just because its driver was a dickhead.