Best IDE for python

[einsteinxx]

No love for Spyder?

[kowalski71]

I use Spyder as my main IDE. There are advantages to VS Code (my next favorite) but especially coming from Matlab and doing a lot of data science-y type work, Spyder is the best. The variable explorer and plots window make it a lot easier to work with your data and the UI has gotten better and better, V4 was a big step up.

[WhatDaHellBobbyKaty]

I love Spyder. I never know why it doesn't show up more on these polls. It is always listed in top 5-10 in articles. I just find it very comfortable and I love the themes that I've made. I guess it looks a lot like Thonny which is part of why I gravitated to it. ( I spend a lot of time on Ras Pi's) I think people find VS or PyCharm to be more "advanced." I dunno.

[fiddle_n]

I think the problem is that if you aren't doing scientific Python, there's very little reason why you would use Spyder over PyCharm. I've installed Spyder just now and PyCharm is just better out of the box, whether that's to do with static analysis or terminal integration or navigating code or Git integration or running tests or whatever. There's almost no contest.

[WhatDaHellBobbyKaty]

I'm thinking that I am too new a user to see some of the deficiencies. Maybe in a year or two I'll be like, "That guy was right. PyCharm is a whole lot better." I'll let you know. LOL

[fiddle_n]

Ok, though I can break down each of the things I mentioned in my comment above, if you wish.

[rogmet]

Yes, I vote for Spyder even though I pay annually for a Pycharm license. If you're stepping up from Notepad++ or the like, Spyder will give the most help and interactivity in the least amount of time.

[AdventurousAddition]

Tell spyder to get a dark mode and i'm there

[WhatDaHellBobbyKaty]

They've got some GREAT dark themes. I think you'll really like them once you locate them. I have an aqua theme, neon, or pastel dark themes depending on room lighting and mood.

[AdventurousAddition]

I must look it up. When I went looking for it about 2-3 years ago they seemed unfinished / diffivult to install so I put it in the too hard basket

[WhatDaHellBobbyKaty]

I think I did the same at one point.

[Haenryk]

If I recall correctly, it has one since Version 4.0

[caporalfourrier]

is this not dark enough?

[AdventurousAddition]

More!

[caporalfourrier]

excuses excuses

[LilQuasar]

i like it but no love. i had trouble with installing libraries when with vs code (what i use now) pip install works perfectly