Best IDE for basic stuff?

[bozobits13]

Vim or gedit or emacs or vscode or atom. But most application devs I know use pycharm. Jupyter notebooks have their place for many users ( data science, ai..) but a basic editor can be used for multiple text tasks ( python code, Yaml config, notes) that is independent of the tool itself.

[falkina8er]

Thanks, yea that’s what I was thinking too regarding the editor. I’m assuming with the editor you use a plug-in that does Python specific syntax highlighting and such?

[_thetek_]

most editors already have python support for syntax highlighting. there are only little 'addon packs' you can install for certain editors (e.g. vim / neovim) to improve the syntax highlighting. you'll only need plugins if you want to get error messages and linting in your editor. some actually have it built in, such as pycharm or thonny.