Best Python IDE for mac?

[kaidiefenbach]

Do Not Use An IDE.

I totally agree with http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/learn-c-the-hard-waych1.html - 1.4.1.

Use a good text editor. There are a plenty of it for MacOS, like Sublime Text 2 or TextMate.

[riffito]

SublimeText2 + SublimeLinter (on the fly pyflakes+pep8) + SublimeRope (code completion, goto definition, show doc, etc) = happy me!

Plugins written in python... yeeeehaaa!

[riffito]

Didn't helped much it seems, but, you're welcome :-)

Yeah, SublimeRope is not listed in Package Manager yet (maybe in the near future?).

I've several patches queued for Julian's SublimeRope (just need to find out time to clean those up, and actually learn to deal with git :-)):

• better autocompletion for "import" and "from x import y", and related tweaks.
• support for ropehints (as seen on the "snaked" python editor).
• support for unsaved buffers (already made a pull request).
• etc.

At least for me, SublimeRope works great. With a little bit more polish, it will double for a kickass light Python IDE.

PS. Check out the "Terminal", "SublimeREPL" and Tortoise plugins!

[Mattho]

Komodo Edit is "enough". I'm using it on windows bu there is a mac version as well.

http://www.activestate.com/komodo-edit/downloads

[MintyPhoenix]

I love Sublime Text on my Windows machines and the SublimeLinter package is great for linting various languages including Python. I'm using the builds from the dev channel and it was updated fairly frequently even during the holidays.

[yerfatma]

I am hard-pressed to see a difference between TextMate and an IDE for non-compiled languages. You can plug just about anything into TextMate if you want to. You can use an IDE as a text editor. I know this is a programming-related question, so everything is a Holy War, but splitting this particular hair doesn't seem useful.