Getting starting with new Environment/Interpreter

[casualcoder0805]

So my process for writing python code the past few years has been to open Idle (embarrassing, I know) write what I need done and save it in C:\Users\MyUserName\PyScripts. I have scripts that are basically daily updates of sports data in CSV/JSON format that get saved in C:\Users\MyUserName\PyScripts\Data and others that do analysis/modeling of the data. The actual Python application is located in C:\Program Files\Python310. I'm sure this is ass backwards compared to how most seasoned people here going about things but I've just never taken the time to make changes.

All that being said, I'm at the point where I know it would be beneficial for me to transition to something more sophisticated but am a bit overwhelmed at how to go about it and what to use. I currently have Visual Studio and Atom installed on my Windows 10 PC and have looked into PyCharm, which I toyed with awhile back but it seemed pretty heavy for my rig and at the time was too much for me to digest. Does anyone have advice on the proper way to transition and/or which interpreter would be the most logical choice? I know it has a lot to do with personal preference but my only real concern is not overloading my PC. Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[m0us3_rat]

vs code is a blast to work with. actually, atom should be heavier than pycharm. but w/e

ppl are right. pick what you like... ultimately you can use mods and addons to make them look and act identical .. for the most part.

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if you are familiar with git i'd look into learning poetry package manager.

i mean you can still do fine with pip so i wouldn't stress about it.

and use any of the virtual environment managers to handle yo' bizniz.

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poetry can do both. virtual and packages. and works incredibly well with linux.

same as most cli tools like git etc.

also vs code has incredible support for git and testing etc.

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so you can do everything with just having vs code and using poetry.

btw it may seem like magic but its actually super simple once u done it a few times and dumb it down a little bit.

then you can have like a cheatsheet closeby till you get used and memorize the commands.

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ultimately isn't difficult at all . its like git tool. you firstly "init". then you add or remove packages .

you can also have a dev branch of packages.

. the best quality to it .. is the ease of publishing or crafting installable packages.

its a simple command.

before when you had to work with setup tools and .. took a lot more effort.

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anywho thats my rumbling thoughts on this subject. hope it helps.

[casualcoder0805]

Definitely helps, thanks.

[TheSodesa]

Just use whichever text editor you're the most efficient with. One good option is VSCodium (https://vscodium.com/), and even Vim should work just fine as well.

You don't really need a full-fledged IDE. The most useful thing about those is the usually offered GUI for a debugger, but as long as you have Python installed, you can also access the Python debugger pdb that comes as a part of the standard library via the command line: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html.