[Tutor] IDE for Python

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Thu Oct 7 18:23:10 CEST 2010


"Juan Jose Del Toro" <jdeltoro1973 at gmail.com> wrote 

> In your experience what is the best IDE for Python?

In my experience its vim and a couple of command shells.
But that's to do with 
a)what I use Python for and 
b) many years experience using vim 
It may not work for you (and you could substitute emacs 
for vim if your fingers 'speak' emacs).

> I've used SPE and IDLE, 

These are chalk and cheese. 
If you just want to write a few basic scripts then IDLE is 
a good choice. SPE is better if you want tov do GUI work
or bigger projects.

> I've also seen people using Eclipse 

PyDev on Eclipse is great if you already use Eclipse or if you 
are doing multi-language projects - and have a big modern PC...

> but which one do you recommend?

Whatever best matches what you are trying to do and your 
existing experience. And that may be more than one!

HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/




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