Python code editors are designed for developers to code and debug programs easily. The IDEs can also be used by DevOps engineers for continuous Integration.
1) IDLE (Default)
IDLE (Integrated Development and Learning Environment) is a default editor that comes with Python. This software helps a beginner to learn Python easily. The IDLE software package is optional for many Linux distributions.
Platform: Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/All Tk Platforms
Price: free
Features:
- Search multiple files
- It has an interactive interpreter with the colorizing of input, output, and error messages.
- Supports smart indent, undo, call tips, and auto-completion.
- Enable you to search and replace within any window.
Download Link: https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html
2) PyCharm
PayCharm is a cross-platform IDE used for Python programming. It contains API that can be used by the developers to write their own Python plugins
Platform: Linux/Mac OS X/Windows
Price: Free
Features:
- It is an intelligent Python code editor supports for CoffeeScript, JavaScript, CSS, and TypeScript.
- It provides smart search to jump to any file, symbol, or class.
- Smart Code Navigation
- It offers quick and safe refactoring of code.
- It allows you to access PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, and many other databases from the IDE.
Download Link: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/
3) Wing
Wing is a lightweight Python environment that is designed to give you a productive development experience.
Platform: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and also supports remote development to Raspberry Pi and other ARM Linux devices.
Price: Wing Pro trial is free. Wind Personal and Wing 101 are paid versions.
Features:
- Helps you to remove common errors and write better Python code.
- You can check for debug data and try out bug fixes interactively without restarting your app.
- Wing supports test-driven development with various frameworks like the unittest, pytest, nose, doctest, and Django testing.
Download Link: https://wingware.com/
4) Pydev
PyDev is a third-party Python editor for Eclipse. This editor can be used in not only Python but IronPython and Jython development.
Platform: Eclipse.
Price: Free
Features:
- It has interactive console shortcuts
- Allows you to create a Google App Engine (GAE) Python project
- Automatically import code to complete it.
- You can Configure Django integration.
Download Link: https://www.pydev.org/
5) Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is an open-source environment developed by Microsoft. This IDE can be used for Python development.
Platform: Linux/Mac OS X/Windows
Price: Free
Features:
- The editor provides smart code completion based on function definition, imported modules, as well as variable types.
- You can work with Git as well as other SCM providers
- Provides extensions to add new languages, debuggers, themes to gain the advantage of additional services.
Download Link: https://code.visualstudio.com/
6) Jupyter
Jupyter is a tool for people who have just started with data science. It is easy to use, interactive data science IDE across many programming languages that just not work as an editor, but also as an educational tool or presentation.
Platform : (Mac/Linux) or Command Prompt (Windows)
Price: Free
Features:
- It supports for Numerical simulation, data cleaning machine learning data visualization, and statistical modeling.
- Combine code, text, and images.
- Integrated data science libraries (matplotlib, NumPy, Pandas)
Download Link: https://jupyter.org/install.html
7) Atom
Atom is a useful code editor tool preferred by programmers due to its simple interface compared to the other editors. Atom users can submit packages and them for the software.
Platform: macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows
Price: Free
Features:
- Package Manager Integrated for Plugins support
- The feature of smart auto-completion
- Supports Command Palette
- Multiple panes
- Allow cross-platform editing
Download Link: https://atom.io/
8) Thonny
Thonny is an IDE for learning and teaching programming, specially designed with the beginner Pythonista scripting environment.
Platform: Windows Thonny is a Python-only editor but for that reason, it is able to provide some excellent support.
Price: Free
Features:
- Allows developers to view how their code and shell commands affect Python variables.
- Provides support for evaluating an expression.
- Python function call opens a new window with separate local variables table as well as code pointer.
- Automatically spot syntax error.
Download Link: https://thonny.org/
9) Sublime Text 3
Sublime Text 3 is a code editor that supports many languages including Python. It has basic built-in support for Python. Customization of Sublime Text 3 is available for creating create a full-fledged Python programming environment.
Platform : OS X, Windows, and Linux.
Price: Free Trial
Features:
- It has command Palette implementation that accepts text input from users.
- Handle UTF8 BOMs in .gitignore files • Display badges for folders and file to indicate Git status
- Changes to a file are represented by markers available in the gutter.
Download Link: https://www.sublimetext.com/3
10) Spyder
Spyder is a scientific integrated development environment written in Python. This software is designed for and by scientists who can integrate with Matplotlib, SciPy, NumPy, Pandas, Cython, IPython, SymPy, and other open-source software.
Platform : Windows/Linux/macOS
Price: Free
Features:
- Plot a histogram or time-series, make changes in date frame or NumPy array.
- It offers automatic code completion and horizontal/vertical splitting.
- Find and eliminate bottlenecks
- An interactive way to trace each step of Python code execution.
Download Link: https://www.spyder-ide.org/