Best IDE or Editor for python?

anotherF · 25 Jun 2010 at 22:18

I am going to have a go at learning some python, what is the best editor or IDE to use in Ubuntu?

Thanks

tntcoder · 25 Jun 2010 at 22:53

I've always used Spyder, it has proved to be pretty decent. Has all the features I need in an IDE anyway

I think Eclipse has Python plugins, but it's more of an addon so not sure how great that is. There is NetBeans as well, again no idea how good that is.

If you just want a plain editor, medit is great for mucking about and has syntax highlighting and a built in terminal.

Inquisitor · 27 Jun 2010 at 15:59

Vim all the way :cool:

mcompute · 27 Jun 2010 at 23:19

You can use the built in gedit, it has python syntaxing. The only downside is the rows aren't numbered.

|Thomas| · 28 Jun 2010 at 23:27

mcompute said:
You can use the built in gedit, it has python syntaxing. The only downside is the rows aren't numbered.

Edit > preferences > display line numbers

Personally I use gedit with additional plugins for block commenting and other stuff. I use python mainly for physics though so generally I'm doing small scale projects, not full blown programming.

If you're new to programming I'd recommend sticking with text editors, perhaps one with the odd extra feature like syntax highlighting (found in editors like gedit/kate/etc). If you get into programming and need some higher level features then I'd take a look at an IDE

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malef!c · 30 Jun 2010 at 16:15

I use Geany on Ubuntu. It has a few different syntax templates including python.

SMN · 1 Jul 2010 at 09:19

+1 here for gedit.

MarkW7 · 1 Jul 2010 at 21:35

I use gedit with python, just enable the line numbers and you're good to go.

HumbleCoder · 2 Jul 2010 at 06:47

I use VIM but any decent text editor will do, clever IDEs like VS, intelliJ, Eclipse etc don't exist (or not needed depending on who you talk to) because they are very difficult to do due to Pythons dynamic nature.

lovedaddy · 2 Jul 2010 at 17:58

Eric?

gam3r · 3 Jul 2010 at 13:35

Inquisitor · 3 Jul 2010 at 21:14

Seriously, though, Vim really does wonders for your productivity once you get the hang of it (which admittedly can take a bit of time). Being able to carry out just about any common task with just a few keystrokes and never having to take your hands off the keyboard is very useful.

tntcoder · 3 Jul 2010 at 22:45

Inquisitor said:
Seriously, though, Vim really does wonders for your productivity once you get the hang of it (which admittedly can take a bit of time). Being able to carry out just about any common task with just a few keystrokes and never having to take your hands off the keyboard is very useful.

Emacs > Vim

Inquisitor · 4 Jul 2010 at 01:02

tntcoder said:
Emacs > Vim

One more for the ignore list!