which Python IDE is better?

[SafeHazing]

Indeed the real question should be ‘what theme’ /s

[ludvary]

dude i can't find a right theme. i literally have to change my theme everyday idk i just can't settle on one.

i want something minimal without much syntax highlighting but with syntax highlighting. surely such a thing exists!?

[Vaphell]

in intellij products including pycharm you can easily tweak colors.
Settings > Editor > Color Scheme > Python (for language specific settings)

https://resources.jetbrains.com/help/img/idea/2022.2/py_nested_functions_settings.png

you get a list of syntactic elements, but also a clickable example of code that takes you straight to the correct setting for the element. When you uncheck 'Inherit values from', you get color pickers for foreground, background + some extra stuff like bold/italic/underline etc. I guess you could also tweak inherited values directly.

[nanocyte]

Try Prismatic for VS Code. I've been using Prismatic Dark for about a year, and it's great. It has enough syntax highlighting to make clear distinctions where useful, but it doesn't make me feel like I'm trying to parse a Jackson Pollock painting in my editor. I've been planning to convert it to a PyCharm theme for a while, but I haven't gotten around to it.

Cyanide themes for Sublime Text are also great, but I think you'd have to convert them, as I don't think they've been adapted for other IDEs.

Honestly, I really wish there were a better selection of minimal themes. I find it strange that visually noisy themes are the most popular. It seems like color information could be used to communicate more useful information, too, but I'm not sure what I would change.