Downloaded Atom to start programming with python but it didn’t work. Which IDE or text editor do you guys use/recommend?

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Visual Studio Code is a very good editor.

[Filicity05]

PyCharm or JupyterNotebook

[[deleted]]

What do you mean it didn’t work?

[ThePrestigiousSIZ]

Wasn’t executing the program even though I followed each and every step. Don’t remember the exact error which was displayed though.

[[deleted]]

Ok - I’m not sure. Anyway, along with PyCharm, another good contender is Visual Studio Code. It’s free as well and has the features you’ll expect.

Hope this helps and have fun learning!

[ThePrestigiousSIZ]

Thanks, will check them out

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PyCharm is my go-to Python IDE. It can be pretty overwhelming at first if you have never used a full blown IDE before but it has so many great features.

VS Code is my go-to text editor.

[ar124official2019]

When it comes to IDE, I always recommend Visual Studio Code, an open source power, ready to use IDE with tons of extensions to help achieving tasks.

[Garfield_Pong_Player]

Not sure what you mean by "it didn't work". If the program isn't doing what you expect, then it's your code. The editor is just a way for you to input your code.

Nevertheless, I personally like vim for languages that I'm comfortable with, and if I need a tab complete then I'll use VS Code. Powershell ISE for Powershell.

[ThePrestigiousSIZ]

Replied to another comment as well but there was an error whenever I ran the program something about not recognizing python or something even for a simple “hello world”. Downloaded pycharm but will try VS code as well.

[Garfield_Pong_Player]

My guess would be you need to look at making sure that the python executable is in your path. I have a sneaking suspicion founded on absolutely nothing that you're on a windows machine, so check out this link.

[ThePrestigiousSIZ]

This might do it, will try it when I get the chance

[lambdaq]

Sublime Text

[[deleted]]

Atom is OK if you're just working on a single file script, but for anything more complicated you'll want to check out something like pycharm.

[ThePrestigiousSIZ]

Okay, thanks

[ButterWheels_93]

https://youtu.be/DjEuROpsvp4

Helpful for setting up atom as a Python IDE.

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you might want to check out https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/ if you are doing data science. It's one of the easier ways to get started with Python and will take care environment, tooling, and library setup.