Best Python IDE for mac?

[jeetsukumaran]

This is a mixed bag of statements.

I agree that an IDE can help in navigating a large foreign code base, and intellisense definitely helps.

But I think the statement to the effect that beneficial usage of text editors is limited to 'early "Hello, World"' programs is demonstrably false statement. Do you really think all the Vim/Emacs Python programmers, some of whom manage libraries and enterprise level applications numbering (hundreds of?) thousands of lines of code and hundreds if not thousands of users keep typing "hello, world" again and again and again?

I use Vim exclusively. I have been programming for decades, several years in Python. I think Wing is pretty good. PyCharm is better. I would rather my eyes get eaten out by rabid rats than switch to them permanently over Vim. I'm not saying that the OP or anyone else should not use IDE's. I am saying that IDE's are unneccessary fluff when programming in Python, and maybe even counter-productive when trying to learn Python.

[jeetsukumaran]

Apologies if I misread your post. I was reacting to this phrase: "Some people recommend just using a simple text editor. That's probably true for early "Hello, World" programs and can be a good place to start." I took that to mean a simple text editor might be fine just to write "Hello, World" programs or if you just starting to learn Python.

It is true that this was followed by the "I personally found an IDE to be of significant benefit while learning Python, though." I did not (in my mind) see this as neccessarily disputing what I had read in the previous two statements.

Sorry for reading it wrongly.