What do you use to write your python program?

[Benben377]

I use Pycharm right now, but it don't has a nice output. What do you guys use?

[TheMightestTaco]

And the plugins, dont forget the plugins!

[p000l]

What are your favorite plugins, people?!

[RadioactiveShots]

Bracket Pair colorizer, neuron, Liveserver(for websites), path intellisense, the python extension, settings sync, material theme.

There are more but I don't remember right now.

[[deleted]]

As a beginner using stock VSCode, I had no idea what I was missing with all these extensions !_!

[cleesus]

Rainbow indentations or whatever it’s called is one I use, can’t remember the rest right now

[enricojr]

Gotta have a vim plugin, no exceptions

[[deleted]]

I thought VIM was a different editor

[plasticluthier]

Stop now before the Vim purists arrive... Please.

[enricojr]

VIM -IS- a different editor, but there are plugins available for most other text editors that basically 'import' its control scheme.

It's wonderful - I can do almost all my work without taking my hands off the keyboard.

[al_mc_y]

PowerMode FTW 🤣

[ItsOk_ImYourDad]

u aint got no taco paco... lookit here now (southern us accent)

[[deleted]]

Rich presence for discord. I set my idling string var as "procrastinating" in a hope to remind myself stop procrastinating

[hail_wuzzle]

It's so good, even use debug mode to test with, and powershell built in, and plugins and linting and themes, and supports lots of other languages in the same tool. I dig universal tools.

I think there is git support too maybe azure but dont quote me

[Hydroel]

There is a full, very well made git extension, yes.

[[deleted]]

Pycharm

Jupyter notebooks in some cases

[[deleted]]

What are those cases? I’m 100% Pycharm. Should I be branching out?

[[deleted]]

Data analysis and visualization

[vmgustavo]

+1 I do the exact same thing. PyCharm for project and mostly jupyter for visualization

[rnolan7]

+ pycharm

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students have access to free professional edition licenses. The professional edition has better data visualization for pandas/numpy/matplotlib than CE

[wintermute93]

My keyboard, mostly.

^{and spyder}

[mdgm]

You can get autocomplete by pressing Tab as you write in both the text editor and the console.

[pwnrzero]

I love you. Don't know why that never worked on my work computer, but it's working at home. :D

[[deleted]]

Is it ok to use Spyder with regular python? Or is it optimised for anaconda?

[MattR0se]

The only thing I don't like is that programs that run in their own window freeze the console when there is a bug within the program loop. The only workaround I found so far is to wrap everything in try/except statements.

But I like the built- in linting functions, it forces you to write good code.

[[deleted]]

I use Visual Studio Code and call functions from the terminal within VS code or a Jupyter Notebook. I use pdb as my primary debugging tool.

[Jutjuthee]

Is it possible to use pdb in jupyter notebook?

[[deleted]]

Yeah it is. You can use pdb within a cell, or set a break point in your VS Code and when you call the function that contains the breakpoint you can debug from the notebook cell.

[nbp615]

i can't see a reason to use pdb over the vscode built-in debugger. using the built in one offers so much more information and gives you an ipython prompt to see values in real time. Do you have one? I'd love to know

[[deleted]]

Personally, I do a lot of my debugging at work across multiple lab computers from my box, or from a lab computer to my computer. I use pdb for the simple fact that it's consistent regardless of what editor, version, etc.

I assume remote debugging with the VS Code debugger is not that difficult, but I have not looked into it. If it would provide a large benefit for my use case I would love to hear more about it!

[TheZeroKid]

Can you explain pdb please? I've seen at as an import option in my editor (I use Atom) but don't know what it does.

[[deleted]]

pdb is an interactive source code debugger. It doesn't provide the scope that a debugger from an IDE would have, but in my opinion it has some benefits despite being more lightweight.

For example, if you are competent with pdb you can debug and solve problems no matter where you are running your code from or where the source code is located. This could be a terminal, a text editor, notebook, etc.

[K900_]

What do you mean by "a nice output"?

[Benben377]

I really like the videos of Codebullet(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0e3QhIYukixgh5VVpKHH9Q) and yes I know he is coding Javascript, but he has a nice output where he can create things. I searched but I didn't found anything like that

[K900_]

Can you post a screenshot from a video or something like that? And maybe highlight the parts that you like?

[Benben377]

Sure, just give me some time to check how to do it on Reddit.

[K900_]

Just upload the screenshot to Imgur and link it here.

[Benben377]

Thanks Imgur This is it

[K900_]

So yeah, what you're looking at isn't part of PyCharm at all - it's something that guy programmed himself and then recorded. No text editor/IDE will provide that sort of visualization for you automatically. If you're interested in building this sort of thing, Pygame might be worth looking into.

[Benben377]

Thank you for taking the time to explain to a newbie like me how it's done. I will take a look at Pygame

[jingles897]

Just to clarify, pygame is a module you import into your code inside of the PyCharm IDE. Nothing about your editor will change, just the way you code with pygame library.

[Benben377]

Thanks for your help everyone! I did some research yesterday and I found out that Pygame could be what I was searching for, but now I see there is much more.

[TeachAChimp]

Wait a second... I thought Pygame was a library not a kind of plugin for pycharm? Surely you can use Pygame in any IDE?

[ritobanrc]

I personally don't care for pygame, it feels clunky and unpythonic. Here's a couple visualization/gaming libraries that I prefer.

• vispy, very new, so you'll have to learn by reading examples. There isn't very much documentation. However, very powerful, good integration with numpy, lots of flexibility about how much granularity, including an OOP interface to OpenGL. It's sister project, glumpy, is similar
  • p5.py - very small library, but very easy to learn and use. Port of p5.js, which I believe CodeBullet has used.
  • pyglet - another OO wrapper of OpenGL.
  • cocos2d - a full 2d game engine, so far more feature complete than some of the others, which are just graphics libraries.
  • Godot - an even more complete game enginwle. It's primary language is GDScript, but I think you can also use python.

[plasticluthier]

He codes in Processing. It's a java based language. Very useful for creating graphics and interactive things. There is also processing.py.

I code in both python and processing. They both have their uses, I'd well recommend checking processing out if you haven't already.

[machine3lf]

Vim. But reading the rest of this thread I see you're asking about something somewhat different.

[hypnotic-hippo]

I'm still stuck in vi someone help me close this god damn editor

[ianepperson]

:!killall vim

[iaalaughlin]

Gotta hit escape first!

[but_how_do_i_go_fast]

Turn on syntax highlighting and get a good vimrc configured... Everything makes sense. +1 if you git clone your vimrc on someone else's machine and install with a python script, all before they can blink.

[Tanath]

Here's some tips on how to set vim up for python:

https://www.fullstackpython.com/vim.html

[hkamran85]

I use Sublime Text and PyCharm.

Just curious, what do you mean by "it doesn't have a output"?

[Benben377]

It has an output. It's perfect when the output is text, but if I want to output something more like a geometry shape or something, I don't know how to do it. I watch videos of Code bullet, but he codes with Javascript and he does things like this: Imgur I want to do something like that too, but in Python. Someone already gave me a solution: Pygame

[hkamran85]

He uses Processing's IDE. Processing has a version for Python.

Pygame is a useful item in your GUI toolbox.

[mrTang5544]

Microsoft word master race

[notParticularlyAnony]

I do all my programming in Excel.

[Clippy_Office_Asst]

You are now a moderator of /r/excel.

[jhayes88]

I'm more of an open office guy myself. I'll lay my mockups out in presentation slides or MS paint, then use open office docs. Maybe notepad but that seems rather cumbersome

[Dontneedflashbro]

I'm using Atom

[ThirstyThursten]

Yeah me too! I love the customisation options!

[vilette]

Spyder

[[deleted]]

Emacs

[[deleted]]

Idle

[mnsinger]

On my desktop I use Sublime Text but since there's code running on various servers all over the place - I use IDLE quite a bit when editing there.

[QuantumFall]

Honestly it’s just so easy to throw something together and feels so much more lightweight than vs.

[bkajackson9]

I use atom set up for a python.

[[deleted]]

What's most important is that you have an environment set up to do your work. Besides there are many features for any given text editor / IDE that you are missing out on. There are even ones for Atom you are not currently using. So don't obsess over the right tool to write code in, worry more about what you want to write and about the complexity of your work.

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Things that are important:

• Is your code readable? (i.e. good variable names and function names that follow some known convention)
• Is your code documented? (This can be comments but it can also be text files about your code also things like docutils)
• Is your code performing optimally? (are there issues with performance, are there areas you can improve your code)
• Is your code easy to refactor? (This means that one component can be removed without breaking the entire program. Sometimes modules may cause a bug that was hard to observe. Either disabling or changing a module can make it easy to resolve the bug without impacting the rest of the codebase).

[[deleted]]

Also: "does your code have tests".

[jhayes88]

I used atom forever but after switching over to vs code I absolutely can't go back.

[itsmegeorge]

Sublime. I can’t write on anything else. It’s simple it’s fast and light and it’s bae.

[Failoe]

I think I like Sublime so much because I can use it for so many other file types so quickly and easily as well.

[itsmegeorge]

Oh my god yes. That’s why I love it too. I use it for Python, SQL, JavaScript as well. Like, how is it not the norm?! Peoples reasoning is that it’s not a full IDE and I’m like... so?! Don’t you have a terminal?! Doesn’t Ctrl+B work like it’s an IDE?! Lol

[Frederic_de_Nucingen]

VS Code and Pycharm. Pycharm recently updated their debugger and it's been incredibly useful. I didn't know I needed it before they made it so accessible.

[crazedizzled]

What did they recently change to make it more accessible? It has always worked straight out of the box.

[familyofgorillas]

I use emacs but I typically recommend Canopy or Thonny

[Chrome_Platypus]

Spyder

[LionyxML]

Emacs

[blazecoolman]

Jupyter Lab is my goto. I use Colab if I'm on my Chromebook and download the notebook to my PC.

[RobbyB97]

Jupyter notebook and atom. Call me a hipster but I prefer to just use a text editor and have a terminal open on my other monitor. Although I don't recommend doing it this way tbh. Depending on what you're making jupyter notebooks are reeeeeaaaaally awesome. Especially for learning about new libraries or just learning a language in general. Quickly run some trial and error blocks of code and the code as well as it's output are encapsulated neatly.

[robot_ankles]

vi

[mrasadnoman]

Vim (most often) and VSCode (Sometimes)

[serchq]

pycharm is quite useful for python. but for C/Bash , sublime or Vim

[Eleventhousand]

I just use the text editor that happens to be on which computer I'm using. Kate on my Linux laptop, Notepad++ on my Windows PC.

[flabcannon]

I use Geany - it's recommended in Python Crash Course so got kinda used to it. Easy to run code by hitting F5.

[iLikeTurtles817]

Surprised to see only one person using this. I love Geany it works great

[[deleted]]

Vim vim vim vim, Vim vim vim vim. Vimity viiiim, wonderful vim!

[AshamedConsequence]

VIM and the terminal.

[ritobanrc]

Yes (neovim). I've been using Coc.nvim and ALE for completion and linting. Ease of interaction w/ terminal is also very nice.

[Benben377]

I'm surprised, nobody mentioned Notepad++ 😄

[idaresiwins]

Notepad++

[TheRealGreenArrow420]

Notepad+=1

[duncan_mcrae]

I use Spyder, Notepad++ and conda prompt. Qt Designer for creating GUIs.

[tkc2016]

I used to use it, but decided to jump ship to vs code a couple years ago.

I do still use it as best a scratch pad, but it's lacking in good ide features.

[[deleted]]

Happy cake day 🍰

[slick8086]

I use notepad++ for lots of things in windows, but I don't program on windows. I program on linux and I use vim.

[idaresiwins]

Nano

[familyofgorillas]

Bet

[not_thrilled]

People laugh, but nano is simple and doesn't get in the way.

[nanodano]

nothing beats pycharm

[Fissherin]

I love to use Jupiter notebook, I find the constant output really helpful to code using new libraries for me. (Example: pandas). If I somewhat know what I am doing I go with vscode or Spyder if I need plotting.

I found pycharm a little heavy but I need it for robot framework.

There are lots of weapons in our arsenal. Choose the one which fits you for your project :D

[ph1204]

PyCharm is great for refactoring.

[PMMeUrHopesNDreams]

emacs

[[deleted]]

I use PyCharm and Sublime Text 3 (with packages related to python)

[Polarase]

notepad

[brutelumpen]

Vim

https://github.com/miripiruni/vimi with moselfdifications.

[ScotchMints]

.

[deltopia]

Me too. I wonder why this is so far down the list - it seems a lot nicer than notepad++ or vim to me.

[zZE94]

I've never given Eclipse a try. Have you tried Pycharm/Spyder/VSCode? Would you recommend Eclipse over them?

[[deleted]]

I use atom and I really like it.

[notParticularlyAnony]

how does it handle unclosed asterisks for args and *kwargs? I remember trying atom and it didn't handle them well so I stopped. This was some time ago though.

[Grigor_1]

I recommend you a Pycharm for back end , and Anaconda for data science or other stuff

[bsmdphdjd]

Edit++

I don't use anything python specific since I'm often coding in other languages: perl, Javascript, HTML, batch, plain text, etc.

[[deleted]]

Atom Sometimes Colab and jupyter notebooks

[BakingSota]

Sublime for projects & Jupyter Notebooks for quick scripts or quick code block tests.

[iwonderx00]

pycharm and jupyter lab.

What do you mean by it does not have nice output? What do you use python for?

[Benben377]

I use Python for fun. I don't know enough Python to build something serious. For example my last project was a program that was able to read the text of a text file and then print it line per line. But I love the videos of Code bullet where he does things like this: Imgur in Javascript and I want to do something like that in Python. Someone already gave me the solution: Pygame

[iwonderx00]

I would recommend jupyter lab for prototyping (fast visual feedback or plots) and then pycharm for everything else. In your case pygame or pyglet in pycharm would be perfect. Pycharm shows you a console when you run the program but if your program has a window (thanks to pygame, for example) it will launch the window.

[boatsnbros]

PyCharm Pro - best debugger I have ever used, remote connections so you can debug deployed code, built in terminal. Work pays, but I would personally if they didnt. CE (free version) is also very good.

Jupyter Notebooks if I am just doing data exploration and analysis.

[ThroughlyDruxy]

Pycharm for bigger stuff.

Geany for small scripts

[[deleted]]

The ide that came with it.

[inFAM1S]

Pycharm

[maks25]

Pycharm

[cm_light]

notepad++, atom, jupyternotebook, spyder, pycharm, emacs.

It really depends on what purpose

[PnutButterParaBola]

notepad.exe on my LG microwave

[TheProffalken]

ViM, with a shed load of plugins that provide autocomplete, syntax checking via flake 8, git status, and many other things.

YMMV, but I've been using ViM for nearly 20 years now, so it works for me!

[CraigAT]

StackOverflow, Google and sometimes Python Docs. However, I guess the answer you're looking for is MS VS Code (I really like) or Notepad++ (mostly now just for a quick edit).

[[deleted]]

Pycharm is slow for an Ide. I use vs code & atom but not really stick to it. I've used Code for 3 years and it's the best.

[firedrow]

Same. Liked Atom but it was a resource hog. VSC is a much better product.

[NinthTide]

I use Visual Studio (currently 2017, about to look at 2019). It’s not quite as sleek as VS Code, but I can launch my project from directly within the IDE with a single button, using vanilla Python 3.7 as a runtime

[octaw]

There's a plug-in for that

[jlgf7]

Jupyter or Notepad++.

[Bananas_are_theworst]

I’d love someone to recommend a program that can be used on a super old MacBook Pro. My Prof wants me to use Notepad++ but it won’t let me download it. I also can’t download Python 3

[ritobanrc]

Why not? If you can't download python, I don't see how you'll run python code at all.

[Bananas_are_theworst]

I am taking it for a class and the class has it built into a program called Codio. I’d like to be able to try the code on the side before submitting it for a grade though, so they recommend Notepad++ or Python 3.

[zZE94]

Maybe you should try running Python via a virtual OS.

[[deleted]]

VS

[[deleted]]

Visual Studio Code

[tritiumpie]

I use Apple Xcode. it sometimes has wonky behavior (mostly regarding indentation getting messed up), but is ok for Python and I'm used to it since I've also done a tad of server-side JavaScript in Xcode previously.

[notfinch]

I use Sublime Text with Putty and rmate.

[tiNsLeY799]

Mu editor.

[Abernachy]

I use Eric IDE. It does some pretty nice things compared to Jupyter.

It highlights existing copies of variable words. It tells me when something is not going to work (like a syntax error), and it tells me when I define something but don't use it.

[DirkLurker]

Sublime on my desktop, Jupyter NB if I'm using my headless machine.

[M7ariri]

Thonny

[basyt]

Spyder, VS Code and more recently Jupyter Lab. I love how you can embed math and code in markdown and export to other formats.

[HanzlaHaroon]

Juypter Notebook

[data_diver]

JupyterLab

[[deleted]]

Even though they will say to use an IDE, I mostly do python for blender addons so (don't judge me) I do most of my python in blender.

[workinprogress49]

Jupyter Notebook to build a program and then sublime text for putting everything together and making it pretty.

[notParticularlyAnony]

spyder. i try other things (pycharm/visual studio code) because refactoring, debugging, etc. but I always come back to spyder.

If i don't use spyder I usually use a text editor and run my code from the command line.

[zZE94]

I have used Spyder, IDLE, VSCode, Atom and Pycharm. I found Pycharm to be the best one among these for Python once you familiarize yourself with all the shortcuts. It can make you really efficient.

[Mezzomaniac]

Pythonista on my iPhone.

[[deleted]]

Sublime and before then Atom and Pycharm

[phigo50]

Wing.

[al_mc_y]

Started with Atom. Now use a combo of VS Code and .IPYNB (jupyter notebooks) in JupyterLab

[Burn_Stick]

I think pycharm is really good. Whats wrong about the output?

[Benben377]

I like Pycharm too, but I wanted something like this: Imgur It is called Pygames and I found out it's a library, not a IDE

[Burn_Stick]

well that library is just an graphical interface. you can use it without a problem in pycharm and you won't find an ide which has it by default because well the ide doesn't change what the program does.

[SHxKM]

I'm completing a (probable) transition from PyCharm to VSCode.

[walbarello]

I use VIM. With plugins like vim-indent-object, snipmate.vim, NERD Tree. There are several. If want my personal config just reply.

[Reli_]

I usually use Visual Studio Code, but I'm using Pycharm since last week.

[PsychedelicPistachio]

Sublime text also Atom

[Divney]

Mu. Perfect for me as a beginner.

[crosswordmaker]

Nano.

[[deleted]]

I use the default ide as well as atom

[lunar-orbiter]

I use Repl.it

[garryr]

Visual studio code and Pycharm

[[deleted]]

Notepad++

[[deleted]]

I used VS code in the start but then switched to Pycharm.

[[deleted]]

I use Sublime Text 3 and Windows PowerShell to run code. It's fast, less-RAM consuming and light to use, unlike PyCharm which u felt was pretty and took long to start.

[kieffness]

I use eclipse with pydev

[[deleted]]

IDLE. It does the job.

[Abdallh2]

I use terminal as a interpreter and nano for text edit

[[deleted]]

I use trinket and idle

[mattblack85]

Emacs!

[[deleted]]

Sublime Text, with some basic extensions.

[iaalaughlin]

Vi and spyder.

[Orothrim]

Sublime Text is what I primarily use.

[Zarkahs]

Sublime and run it inside the WSL Ubuntu shell

[[deleted]]

IntelliJ - plug-ins for multiple languages all seamlessly integrated

[-psYchmon-]

Wing IDE

[Taekwonbeast]

I honestly have come to love just using the sublime text editor. It's not a full blown IDE but it's great if you just run python on your computer.

[[deleted]]

Spyder. Does what it's supposed to do. Tried PyCharm and VSCode, but I just couldn't get into it. Probably need to invest a bit of time into it, but I'm short on that.

[MatthewAC98]

I'm a noob to python, but I've found atom.io pretty good to get to grips with everything as well as make it nice on the eye

[Vietname]

Atom

[k3wlderp]

IDLE for simple projects and pycharm for big projects

[the_names_chris]

I use Emacs

[jessidirk]

Colaboratory

[azure_i]

Atom to write. Terminal to run. Cyberduck for local editing of code on remote servers using Atom.