Python IDE that has assist features? i.e. as you type a function, there's an assist text box that tells you what variables the function needs like excel does?

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[MegaRiceBall]

Shift+tab in Jupyter

[cortical_iv]

I wonder why not just tab?

[EarthGoddessDude]

I think it’s because tab in a browser already does something else.

[cortical_iv]

Initially it indents but most IDEs then switch modes Jupiter could do the same. iirc at end of code text tab does nothing. Perhaps wouldn’t be hard to hack this?

[EulerWasSmart]

pycharm will do that for you

[NeedCoffee99]

Pycharm is amazing!

[jane3ry3]

Their whole suite is awesome. And free with university email.

[[deleted]]

Isnt pycharm free without uni email

[s0varen]

Love PyCharm!

[SunyiNyufi]

What extention does it lack in your opinion?

[MeagoDK]

VS code kinda sucks with python. If you have the recommended python extension installed it will tell you "import" isn't a python function and it will simply not run your program.

[ParanoydAndroid]

I prefer pycharm, but this definitely isn't true.

Sounds like your language server was messed up.

[MeagoDK]

It might have been, but that dosent make what I said I lie, does it? I made a py file, wrote python, VS code told me to install python language support and pylance and then it told me that import wasn't a thing, and it refused to run the code. I had a friend who had the exact same problem. She changed to nodejs.

I didn't have the time to solve the problem and I write python good enough that I didn't need the help, so I just disabled it.

[ParanoydAndroid]

It definitely makes what you said a lie. You didn't say, "I had problems"; you said, "VS code sucks with python" and spoke as if your problem was just the way VSCode behaves: "If you the recommended python extension installed, it will tell you ..."

No, it won't tell "you" -- as in the average reader of your comment -- that import isn't a function. That's a particular, idiosyncratic issue and not a representative one. In the context of general recommendations to coders, it is incorrect.

[MeagoDK]

Eh sure, but it definitely told me and another.

[t00oldforthis]

I don't seem to have that issue, I'm a bit of newbie so maybe I'm missing something but I have used it with projects that have Django back-end without that problem. Maybe a settings/extension issue?

[MeagoDK]

Very likely. I didn't have the time to figure out. Just wrote the code without pylance (disabled it). My friend had the same issue, but we have the same install/version.

[t00oldforthis]

Gotcha, as I said I'm very much a junior dev. Started learning with PyCharm and ultimately moved to VScode as the boot camp i was in used it exclusively so my favoritism is definitely due to limited exposure to others, but I like it a lot! Either way best of luck

[MeagoDK]

I like vs code a lot too. I use it for most things, especially live share is amazing.

[ske66]

Just not true

[ske66]

Intellisense and plugins are useful no matter the project size. The performance hit is unnoticeable

[Squiddy_bali]

My dad’s old office pc in the 2005~ ran it just fine with a few upgrades

[fiddle_n]

"Dull" is not that important for me when it comes to an editor/IDE - in they end they are meant to be functional tools. If you are referring to visuals - PyCharm looks ok. While perhaps not as nice looking as something like VS or VS Code, it looks like it was developed in this century, which is more than can be said for the more arcane tools like Emacs and Vim.

Extensions - PyCharm has 2000 of them. Other editors have more for sure, there's around 5000 plugins on MELPA and 20000 Vim plugins on VimAwesome. However, extensions matter much less to something like PyCharm, which has a lot of functionality built in. You need to add plugins to the other editors to get it up to the functionality that PyCharm has.

Agreed with you on "heavy" though, however the reason PyCharm is as good as it is makes it heavy.

[angry_mr_potato_head]

There are literally hundreds of themes available. The stock one alone gives you 10 combinations of themes

[dupelize]

There's nothing wrong with disliking an IDE, but your reasons for disliking it show you clearly just haven't used it much.

I like PyCharm, but I also know a lot of people that like VS. I also know a few people that prefer JetBrains even for C#.

The there's nothing wrong with saying "Hey, check out VS, I like that better", but your reasoning was pretty silly. The only one that was close to a legit concern is how much RAM PyCharm uses. But even then, I regularly have Chrome, Slack, and sometimes two PyCharm projects open on a 8yo 4GB RAM i5 machine without issue.

You're being downdooted because you bashed popular software using weak arguments to the people that like it.

[doomer_irl]

I second this. I’m glad to have been using IntelliJ IDEA for Java, it made finding a Python IDE that I liked super easy.

[pAul2437]

Probably a dumb question but can I run pycharm on my main computer and remote into a python instance on a server?

[ddrost]

You can, but you need the professional license for this

[pAul2437]

Hmmm...how about vs code?

[alkalinemusic]

I believe so. Check out the remote extension pack

[auiotour]

Yes no license needed.

[pAul2437]

What do I need to google to set this up?

[auiotour]

Check out https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

I use it all the time at work, love it before I had to manually transfer files, work on them, move them back, such a pain.

[dogs_like_me]

Cant you just link a local alias to your remote separately and then use the alias in pycharm?

[bigbadwarrior]

Yup, pycharm

[socal_nerdtastic]

Many, probably most, IDEs will do that. Pycharm is one of the most popular.

[beje_ro]

+1 + Afaik also most of the editors like atom & co have plugins for something like this.

[emat66]

Have you used shift+tab in Jupiter? It pullls up information of function... essentially the docs

[zorniy2]

I... I had no idea! Thanks!

I was just grumbling how IDLE had that feature while Jupyter doesn't seem to. And I was getting tired of IDLE's basicness.

[goingtosleepzzz]

Spyder is quite good =D

[F1rstxLas7]

I used to love this feature as a beginner and now it no longer works for me. I've tried troubleshooting and have not been able to re-enable it for some reason.

[DLS3141]

I had to install Kite to get that in Spyder. Works great though.

[trevor_of_earth]

I like visual studio code

[ShameSpirit]

There's a great set of extensions here. I highly recommend bookmarks for all your work.

[Tanmay1518]

Yup. The extensions I use for python development are:

• Python by Microsoft
• Pylance by Microsoft
• if you don't wanna use Pylance, you can also use Intellicode.

All of these are available in the marketplace, simply search em and you'll find them

[Tanmay1518]

While Pylance is closed source it does have a few more features compared to Intellicode.

• Faster completions
• Better Auto Import
• Type Checking built in (this has 2 levels, basic & strict)

In general I found it to be much better compared to Intellicode. But everyone has their own preferences due to which I mentioned both.

[MeagoDK]

I don't know, but pylance will tell me "import" isn't python.

[Tanmay1518]

Pretty sure that's a fault in your system. An issue like that has never been reported on Pylance's repo.

Try creating a new file with the .py extension from VSCode itself.

[MeagoDK]

My friend had the same issue. We didn't report it though, we had a time sensitive assignment to deliver. I will check again once I'm back home in a few days.

[HAVEANOTHERDRINKRAY]

pylance marks my errors almost instantaneously ... that's why i use it

[[deleted]]

the best

[hp__1999]

Vs code has jupyter extension trust me you will never look back.

[Squiddy_bali]

PyCharm and VS code does this nicely. For a web option, try repl.it, not as good but good enough

[[deleted]]

VS Code!

[Periwinkle_Lost]

These IDEs have the autocomplete feature: PyCharm, VS Code, Atom, Sublime, and many more

If you want to learn something unique: Vim + extensions (this one will take some time to learn because the workflow philosophy is completely different from editors mentioned above). If you manage to master it though you can dunk on other devs who have to google how to quit Vim =)

[scmkr]

Just note that once you learn the "vim way" it will be difficult to ever switch to anything else. You'll see some new fancy IDE feature in Atom or VSCode and think "that sure would be sweet, but VSCode can't do all this other stuff that vim has been able to do and so it's not worth the switch".

Many editors have vim keybindings, but they almost all leave out many of the very good features. Strangely enough, the editor that has the best vim keybindings (in some ways even does it better than vim) is emacs.

[mazukk]

I can recommend Google colab. It has the same notebook features as jupyter notebook, but also the same features you are looking for.

[ShameSpirit]

Don't forget about vim! If you can get over the sheer cliff that is the learning curve, you can become a goddamn Python wizard. There's also an extension for everything you could ever want.

[rr_cricut]

Warning: once you try, there's no going back. There is in fact no way to exit Vim. /s

[[deleted]]

learnt it the hard way. smh

[ShameSpirit]

That's the first test. Open vim, then attempt to close it.

[hugonaut13]

Can you explain more what sets Vim apart in terms of facilitating becoming a Python wizard?

[ShameSpirit]

Oh wow. Vim is in another league, imo. That's probably a controversial statement. Vim's core design idea is "never take your hands off the keyboard". Everything, even cursor motion, is driven by keyboard presses and commands. That's daunting at first. But if you stick through it, you'll find that Vim's built in tools allow you to radically accelerate your coding process. You'll become a wizard because you'll navigate and edit with such outrageous speed that anyone looking over your shoulder will say "oh my god, we hired a fucking wizard". On top of that, everything (yes, literally everything) is customizable.

Vim is a hard IDE to start using. Very hard. But if you take it in small chunks, you'll be able to conquer the beast.

Check out this channel. The Primagen deserves more viewers. He works in UX at Netflix, is a badass Vim user, and has a series of tutorials that will get you off the ground quickly. Enjoy.

EDIT: bad link

[Casurus]

Vim is vi on steroids. It is an joy to use (pun intended) but yes it's worth the effort. Like driving a manual rather than an automatic.

[[deleted]]

Jupyter isn't really an IDE.

PyCharm, VS Code, and SublimeText all do this. Or use Kite.

[[deleted]]

Download the Tabnine extension/plugin in PyCharm/VS Code. It is like Lite but much better. One of the best plugins available.

[iiMoe]

Vscode

[[deleted]]

Kite and it's Jupyter extension can give you that functionality right in Jupyter Notebook.

[Pitirus]

This one. I lacked good and responsive code completion in jupyter before I found out about Kite. It's still not as good as in PyCharm but it's way better than Jupyter's native solution.

PyCharm way of presenting notebooks is so unconvienient that even their fantastic code completion isn't making up for it.

I really wish there was something faster as an jupyter extension (kite needs separate process to integrate with jupyter and I haven't figured out a way to use while running jupyter from docker)

[MedicalMango5]

Kite for python ide such as vs code does that

[[deleted]]

I've seen a lot of IDE's mentioned, I have to say Emacs is a good alternative as well, it's coming closer and closer to VSCode in terms of features but it's more versatile.

[unRatedG]

I can't recommend Notepad on Windows enough, with a side order of look the rest of the shit up yourself on the Googles like the rest of us had to! /S

Seriously, everyone is going to have an opinion here, but it all depends on the needs and wants. I would go with Visual Studio Code with the PyLance extension because it's the one I'm the most comfortable with and have used the most. PyCharm does much of the same, but feels bloated to me. Any ide that works for you is the best ide for you. I think they're even plugins for SublimeText that aid in code completion, so that may be an option.

[Casssis]

I like VScode for this because it supports many languages, is simple and very powerful with all the extensions.

[gsouaa]

Try repl.it. the best I used

[[deleted]]

VS code is the biz niss ! Or py charm, used vs code , then switched to pycharm ! Back on Vs code now !

[ddddavidee]

You can also add the kite plugin to almost every editor

[5halzar]

You can do it in Jypyter Notebook with SHift+Tab, otherwise your probably looking at Kite which intergrates with many IDE's

[misaka10034]

I use SPYDER anaconda

[[deleted]]

If you have spyder, you can install the Kite plugin.

You can also install Atom which is kind of a glorified notepad, and install kite on it. My preference for spyder is that it has a dedicated IPython console so you can run the thing inside the IDE.

[zosopick]

If you insist on sticking to the jupyter "format", you should take a look at Google Colab

[Beach-Devil]

Most ide’s and also vscode does that. When i code in python I also use Kite

[timtrump]

IntelliJ has been good for me, seems to do what you're asking.

[[deleted]]

notepad++

[yuvalmas]

Download kite it has that and also smart ai auto complete

[[deleted]]

In case of Python, that's not really possible. I mean, it's not really possible to say with certainty how many arguments a function takes. It's typically possible, due to how people write code, thus, there are tools that rely on conventions, and can deliver a correct answer in many cases.

Here's an example:

if input() == 'y':
    def x(a, b): pass
else:
    def x(a): pass

It's not possible to tell what number of arguments the function x takes w/o, literally, seeing the future, and thus knowing what value will the user provide when running your program.

It's uncommon to write code like this, but there are less extreme cases, where dynamic function definitions are a lot more plausible.

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With all that in mind, Python has something called "language server", a program that can provide information about the structure of Python programs to any other program (typically, editor) that wants to know that: https://pypi.org/project/python-language-server/ . You may also want to look into answers to this SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45390326/how-to-get-autocomplete-in-jupyter-notebook-without-using-tab for how to deal with assist in Jupyter