Python Editor

[Hawk666]

Hey everyone, I am undertaking a little hobby project, something I've wanted to do for a while now, and decided to take a crack at Python. I was wondering if there are any visual Python editors (kinda like a visual studio type thing) I know it may be alot to ask and I know a lot has to go into a program like that. If it doesn't exist that's fine I'm more interested in finding something with a little more usability the gedit (color coding is helpful but i'm lookin for a little more)

P.S lots of experience with HTML, and java script, some java, VB, ASP, PHP and i've seen C/C++ but haven't really worked with it.

[ubudog]

Emacs is really awesome for me. See my signature. :)

[lykwydchykyn]

There's Eric, which has some handy features if you're working with pyQt, and there's Stani's Python Editor if you're working with WXGtk. I had problems with SPE crashing on me when I tried it, and Eric is just not fun to actually write code in (the text editor portion has far to many bells and whistles for my taste, and I couldn't figure out how to turn them all off).

I've heard a lot of people say good things about Eclipse, and while I used it to get through a couple semesters of Java classes back when, I never had much luck getting the python features working well on Ubuntu. YMMV.

I use Emacs now, and it does what I need though when it comes to Python it probably won't do much for you that gedit doesn't do already.

What features are you looking for specifically?

[lukeiamyourfather]

Maybe PyDev for Eclipse?

[ubudog]

Maybe PyDev for Eclipse?

Also a good option.

[oldfred]

I like geany. It is in the repository. The only thing missing is a real debugger but I just add print statements. Easy to run code and see results. For python need to set default to convert tabs to spaces.

Editors:
Too many choices but many are free so you can try them
http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors

[xsinsx]

Theres always the standard python ide IDLE. I dont use it. but its an option. I personally use a combination of geany, vim, and gedit.

[simeon87]

You could also look into plugins for gedit, there are quite a few.

I use gedit as for Python, I don't need more than a few documents open at the same time, syntax highlighting and just hack away. Many things can be expressed concisely in Python so the code remains manageable without an IDE.

[Junkieman]

I have been using Dr Python (http://drpython.sourceforge.net/) lately, I like it for editing py source files.

Also check out Quickly (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly), it basically combines various technologies and makes it easy to start writing Python apps with GUI interfaces ;)

[Hawk666]

thanks guys i'll have a look at a few and see wat i like

[timvoet]

along similar lines to PyDev for Eclipse, there is the python plugins for netbeans( www.netbeans.org ) that i like alot.

[km0r3]

Generally I use (g)Vim for writing Python programs in combination with Syntax Highlighting and Tab Autocompletion.
I use it for large- and small-sized projects.


Maybe PyDev for Eclipse?
That's also not a bad combination :)