What text editor is everyone using for Python

Benjamin J. Racine bjracine at glosten.com
Tue May 26 17:59:08 EDT 2009


I use Textmate (with vim keybindings) on OS X or just vim on the others OS's.

I still can't decide on which IDE between Wing, PyDev and Netbeans.

Ben Racine



 

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From: python-list-bounces+bjracine=glosten.com at python.org [mailto:python-list-bounces+bjracine=glosten.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Dave Angel
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:36 PM
Cc: python-list at python.org; Lacrima
Subject: Re: What text editor is everyone using for Python

Lacrima wrote:
>> I am new to python.
>> And now I am using trial version of Wing IDE.
>> But nobody mentioned it as a favourite editor.
>> So should I buy it when trial is expired or there are better choices?
>
I'm a little surprised nobody has explicitly mentioned Komodo IDE (the full version).  Although it's not free, it has plenty of useful features, is very configurable, supports Python and a host of other languages, and is a full IDE with an out-of-process debugger.  This means you can step through GUI code, without it interfering with the debugger's event loop.

You can customize it in four ways:
  1) through Edit->Preferences
  2) through recorded macros
  3) through macros written in Javascript
  4) through macros written in Python


A subset of Komodo IDE is available as Komodo Edit, which is open source.

Apparently Komodo is developed from some of the same code base as Firefox, so they can be integrated more tightly when debugging internet stuff.  I haven't tried anything of the sort, so  I can't say how well this works, and for what.

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