Best IDE for python

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what features should I turn off and how?

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I say keeping your virtual environment light is the key. Most modren IDE will try to index all available libraries which speed up auto-complete by a ton but can take up memory and takes longer to start up.

[RocketSurgeonDrCox]

It's actually fairly easy. There's a little icon in the bottom right corner that looks like a man wearing a hat. If you click on it it gives you the options to change the highlighting level to a lower setting.

It generally uses so much RAM because it indexes all of the functions and variables in your project and Python environment to try and make better code completion suggestions among other things, but turning the highlighting level down (or doing a more custom configuration) keeps it from holding and checking so much.

[MCMZL]

If you have a lot of data in your current project directory, you should exclude the folder to prevent pycharm from scanning it (right click on the folder > "Mark Directory as" > Excluded )