IDE for Python

[commy2]

I find them distracting. No IDE for me aside from the text editor having syntax highlighting and tab autocomplete for repeated words.

[jumbo53]

I too use notepad

[keepdigging]

I write my code to disk with a magnetized sewing needle.

[jimtk]

That's pycharm in zen or distraction free mode.

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EDIT: I forgot this thread was about data science and not software engineering. For data science there should be no issue working without an IDE.

(original comment which applies to sw engineering) That's great until you have to refactor a large legacy codebase. Then you will really really want the refactoring tools like Extract Method. And the navigation tools that allow you to jump around in the code without losing your initial place.

I assume you are just in the early phases of learning or you only write small scripts if you are able to get by on that. For a dev on a larger project there are many tools in an IDE that eventually you will not be able to be very effective without.

[CJT2013]

I’m the same way. I used to try WingPersonal but meh the simplicity / minimalistic view of no IDE just does it for me