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Contents
- Multiplatform Editors
- Unix-Only Editors
- Windows-Only Editors
- Macintosh-Only Editors
- Glorified Editors
- Enhanced Python shells
- Mobile Device Editors
- Other Resources
- Never ending debate
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Multiplatform Editors
Name | Platform | Language | License | Notes |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Tcl/Tk | Proprietary | Extensible in Tcl, Tk; Can interact with python. | |
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | C++, wxWidgets | GPLv3 | class browser does not currently work for .py files, but it's still a nice IDE to use for python projects | |
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | C, GTK+ | GPLv3 | The link points to the features page. | |
Linux, Windows, FreeBSD | C | GPLv3 | Cream is a free and easy-to-use configuration of the powerful and famous Vim text editor for both Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | C, GTK+ | GPLv2 | CSS editor with syntax highlighting for Python, and embeded Python interpreter. Extensible through a Python API. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Python, wxPython | BSD | Extensible in Python; part of PythonCard. Includes PyCrust shell. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Python, PyQt | GPLv3 | Complete IDE, very well integrated with PyQT development, but usable for any kind of project. Supports projects, debugging, auto-complete, syntax coloring, etc. It is extensible via plug-in system. It has interfaces to Subversion and Mercurial. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Proprietary | BRIEF-compatible, supports Python syntax, in-buffer Python interpreter, supports lots of languages. Powerful macro language. | ||
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux | Tcl/Tk | Public domain | DRAKON diagram editor with code generation in Python. | |
Windows, Linux and Mac/MacPorts | Python, PyGTK | GPLv3 | Interactive shell with history box and code box, auto-completion of attributes and file names, auto-display of function arguments and documentation. Keeps your recent results, provides session history saving (optionally in HTML), interactive plotting with matplotlib. Extremely fast and responsive. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Python, wxPython | GPL | Simple, Highly Customizable Editor/Environment. A Tribute to DrScheme. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Java | EPL | Eclipse is ... an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular." Support for Python can be obtained via the PyDEV plugin. | |
Linux, Windows | Proprietary | Built-in Python syntax highlighting, Python class browsing, Python-compatible regular expressions, code folding, and extensive options for running external tools such as Python scripts. | ||
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | Python, wxPython | wxWindows | A general purpose developer's text editor written in Python/wxPython. It supports python syntax highlighting, auto-ident, auto-completion, classbrowser, and can run scripts from inside the editor. Extensible with plugins written in python. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS | C, Lisp | GPLv3 | Python support with EmacsPythonMode. Extensible in Python using pymacs | |
Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and OS/2 | Proprietary | Customizable Python mode, syntax coloring, function tagging. | ||
Unix/X, Windows, DOS, OS/2 | C++ | GPL | Supports lots of languages, including Python; doesn't seem programmable | |
Unix/X, Windows | C, GTK+ | GPLv2 | A small and lightweight GTK+ IDE that supports lots of languages, including Python. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS | C, Python | GPLv2 | gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment, with Python syntax highlighting. | |
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | Java | GPLv2 | syntax coloring for python, extensible with jython, supports many file formats, has folding, fully customisable, has sidebar for class and functions, fast for a Java application | |
Unix, Windows, Mac OS | Java | GPLv3 | IDE with Jython Shell. Syntax coloring for python, extensible with jython, supports many file formats, fully customisable, has sidebar for class and functions | |
Unix, Windows | C | GPLv2 | Supports Python syntax and a Python-specific menu. | |
Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and Windows. | C | GPLv2 | Syntax highlighting and indenting, (optional) emacs keybindings, programmable with s-lang. Note: comment out "msw_help(..." line in pymode.sl if you are having problems on Windows. | |
Unix, Windows, Mac OS | Java | GPLv2 | Has three plugins - one for Jython and one for Python/Jython JpyDbg - interactive editing debugging, code browsing, highlighting. | |
Linux, Windows, Mac OS | Java, Python | GPL | ||
Unix/OSX/Cygwin/Interix (curses), MS-DOS (DR DOS, FreeDOS, Win, OS/2 DOS-Box) | C | GPL | Versatile WordStar-like editor (JOE fork) with many colourised syntax-highlighting modes | |
Linux, Windows, Mac OS | C++ | GPLv2 | Kde main developping app. Code folding, syntax highlighting, navigator. projects, class browser, version control, customizable keybindings. Comes also with some typical python project models: pyton Qt app, Tkinter app and simple script. | |
Unix, Windows, Mac OS X | Proprietary | Komodo is an award winning Python IDE from ActiveState. Fully-integrated Python Python 2.x and Python 3 support featuring code intelligence with autocomplete and calltips, Python debugger (includes remote debugging), interactive shell, remote file support, macros, templating, emacs command support and great help documentation. There is also an open-source version called Komodo Edit (Source), as part of the Open Komodo project started November 2007. | ||
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Proprietary/Open Source | scaled-down version of Komodo IDE which also supports Python, but excludes the integrated debugger. | ||
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Python, wxPython | GPLv3 | Python IDE with focus is on simplicity and ease of use. It is fast and lightweight. It features Python indentation, line numbers, code folding, syntax highlighting, shell access, code completion, a program runner, a source browser, indentation guides, a white space indicator, autosaving, an edge line, multiple tabs, printing, jumping to a specific line, word searching, word replacement, zooming undo/redo, pastebin.com code submission, Python syntax checking, the ability to change the indentation of many lines at once, autocompletiton, and bad brace checking. | |
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | Python, PyQt | MIT | Outlining editor, fully scriptable and extensible, supporting literate programming. 100% pure Python code. | |
Unix, Windows | C, GTK+ | LGPL | Gtk editor with python bindings, allows plugins written in python. | |
Unix, Windows, Mac OS X | C | GPLv3 | Easy to use, small, powerful, fast, terminal-based editor. Supports UTF-8, syntax highlighting, undo, autocomplete, macros, regexes, bookmarks. v2.2 released 2011-03-10 | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | C | GPLv2 | X-Based, Python support builtin. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others | Java | GPLv2 | Netbeans is an open extensible cross platform IDE ; Support for Python can be obtained via the JpyDbg plugin. A new plugin exists for Netbeans 6.5 or newer - info. | |
Linux, Windows, Mac OS | Python, PyQt4 | GPLv3 | Lightweight and extensible editor. Class browser, project manager, PEP8 finder, virtualenv, plugin support | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Python, wxPython | GPLv2 | wxPython based editor. Can be easily extended with mixins and plugins, and has many features. Seems to be biased towards Python web development as contains FTP GUI, RSS aggregator and HTML preview. | |
Windows NT, Linux (with GTK+ 2) | C++, wxWidgets | Freeware | Easy to use text editor with syntax highlighting for Python. Embeds the Python interpreter to extend functionality of the application | |
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | Proprietary | Full-featured IDE for Python, Django and Google App Engine. Under active development. | ||
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | Java, Eclipse | EPL | Eclipse plugin. Code-completion. Debugger. Under active development. (ShowMeDo Videos) | |
Linux, Windows | Python, Tk | GPLv3 | Ultra-lightweight Python/text editor made in Python with Tk. Emphasis on easy customization and no-bloat attitude. | |
Unix, Windows, Mac OS X | Python, wxPython | GPLv2 | Written in Python - code folding, snippets, unicode, multiple documents, code completion, several languages, macros. | |
Linux, Windows | Proprietary | An IDE tool used to edit, debug Python scripts, publish encrypted scripts, build a standalone executable file, and make installation in various forms(.msi, .tar.gz, .rpm, .zip, .tar.bz2). It includes an editor simulating Emacs python-mode, a GUI debugger simulating GDB, a project view used to manage scripts, modules, extensions, packages and platform specific data files. | ||
Windows/Linux/Mac (wxPython) | Python | GPLv3 | An interactive environment for python features include: Multiple independent python interpreters. Interactively program with different GUI toolkits (wxPython, TkInter, pyGTK, pyQT4 and PySide). Matlab style namespace/workspace browser. Object auto-completions, calltips and multi-line command editing in the console. Object inspection and python path management. Simple code editor and integrated debugger. | |
SciTE | Windows, Linux (GTK+) | C++ | MIT-Like | A highly configurable light-weight source code editor (about 50 file formats) based on widely-used Scintilla rich text widget/control. Features: sytax highlighting, code folding, auto-indent, brace matching, codepage/unicode support, multiple documents, context help, code execution, output pane, external tools support, RegExp find/replace, text export (HTML, RTF, PDF, LaTeX, XML). Python API for calltips and autocompletion available. |
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X | Python, wxPython | GPLv3 | Stani's Python Editor. Auto indentation, auto completion, call tips, syntax coloring/highlighting, UML viewer, class explorer, source index, auto todo list, sticky notes, integrated PyCrust shell, Python file browser, recent file browser, drag&drop, context help. Blender support with a Blender 3D object browser, runs interactively inside Blender. Ships with WxGlade (GUI designer), PyChecker (source code doctor) and Kiki (regular expression console). Extensible with WxGlade. (ShowMeDo Videos) | |
Windows, Linux, Mac OS X | MIT | Highly active IDE project. It offers pretty much everything: syntax highlighting, auto-indentation, code browser, debugging with breakpoints, project browser, code completion, refactoring and tooltips (with rope library installed; for a local installation on Linux, just add unpacked folder to the Pythonpath with the integrated path manager in the tools menu). Especially suitable for scientific programming as it offers an interface similar to Matlab, with integrated consoles, variable browsing and manipulation. For Windows it is conveniently integrated in the Python(x,y) distribution. | ||
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Proprietary | Syntax coloring, popup function arguments, class hierarchy browser, graphical debugger, and other nice Python features. Context tagging with class/module namespaces, code navigation, and smart indenting are also supported. | ||
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | Proprietary | Beautiful interface, Python syntax highlighting, Python plugins. | ||
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS | C | Charityware | Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. Syntax coloring, indenting, autocompletion, and source-navigation tools for Python. Can be scripted in Python. See also Cream. | |
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X | Proprietary | Powerful commercial IDE designed specifically for Python. Auto-completion, call tips, syntax highlighting, goto-definition, keyboard modes for emulating Visual Studio, VI/Vim, Emacs, & Brief, graphical debugger, code browser, integrated shell, scriptable in Python, and much more. (ShowMeDo Videos) | ||
Linux, Windows | Python, wxPython | GPL | Simple text editor written in python. Syntax highlighter, Code fold, Export code in HTML.... |
Unix-Only Editors
Name | Platform | Notes | ||
Unix + GTK |
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| Beaver is an Early AdVanced EditoR. Beaver is a GTK+2 editor designed to be light-weight, modular and stylish | |
Unix/X | ? | ? | Extensible in Python | |
Unix + QT |
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| scintilla based, with python scriptable text editor. | |
Unix + Wx |
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| folding, syntax highlighting, networking, debugging, python-specific features,... | |
Unix + Gnome | ? | ? | Editor written in C with Python bindings. | |
Unix + GTK |
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| GoInEdit is a text editor, IDE, that integrates a shell terminal and a powerful scripts to helps you to compile, debug and execute, it has Python syntax highlighting. | |
ncurses |
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| Tiny, fast, compatible but enhanced pico clone. nano can do syntax highlighting. | |
Unix |
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| Color-highlighting WordStar-like editor supports many highlight modes | |
Unix |
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| Advanced editor for the KDE environment - supports Python syntax (uses Kate component). | |
Unix |
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| KDE Advanced Text Editor - supports Python syntax. Now has a plugin to browse Python classes and globals. And there is other plugin to autocompletion in Python | |
Linux/FreeBSD | ? | ? | Written in Python, so should be extensible using Python. | |
Linux + KDE |
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| Full-featured web development environment that also supports Python. | |
Unix + Gnome |
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| Scribes is a simple, slim and sleek text editor for GNOME, with Python syntax highlighting. | |
Unix |
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| Acme clone for Unix. Can connect to it (and control it) from Python. | |
Python Tkinter |
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| GUI, class browser, file manager, with code completion. Licensed under the GPL. | |
Unix |
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| IDE with autocompletion, syntax highlighting, templates, project support, options for running code, integrated bash shell and support for group projects over the lan or internet. Also supports ruby, C, C++, Java, Perl, Web development and other languages. Easily extendable in python by writing a plugin. Uses PyQt, lincensed under the GPL. |
Windows-Only Editors
Name | Syntax Highlighting | Python-specific notes | ||
| X | X | Add Python syntax highlighting by downloading free support file from Downloads page. | |
| X | X | ||
| X | X | Pull the appropriate file from http://www.codewright.com/support/addons.asp for Python support. | |
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| X | X | Comes with the Python bundle from TextMate | |
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| X | X | Autocompletion via user-defined description files (manual setup required). Doesn't dynamically do autocompletion for classes. | |
| X | X | Unicode and multibyte languages support. Extremely fast. Find/Replace in Files. Supports JavaScript/VBScript scripting. | |
| X | X | Automatic (no wordlist) autocompletion. Also there are lots of plugins including even any windows scripting host (including python) scripting | |
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| Editor built on SciTe; main claim to fame is a robust debugger that has remote capabilities. | |
| X | X | Very light and fast code editor with a great range of features. Supports multiple documents and multiple views of the same document. | |
| X | X | Syntax coloring customizable. | |
| X | X | Builtin support for Python. | |
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| This project, based on Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component) and written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL. Supports auto-completion, code folding, etc for C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, C#, XML, HTML, VBScript, PHP, and plenty more! Can run Python scripts directly, using the Python Script plugin. | |
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| Supports Python Syntax highlighting by default. Great Notepad replacement for windows. Source available for download. | |
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| X | X | Auto-completion, class browser, parameter tips, ... | |
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| Python syntax highlighting, quick code navigation, scripting in development, open source. | |
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| Class browser, auto-completion, syntax highlighting, ftp client, project files, hex editor, file differences. Scriptable with Python (requires Windows Scripting Host and Python win32). | |
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| Auto-completion, call-tips, syntax highlighting, class browser, debugger, very fast (build with Delphi & Python for Delphi (P4D)) | |
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| Intellisense, Debugging | |
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| Auto-completion, call-tips, syntax highlighting, part of win32 .. | |
| X | X | Symbol database support for Python if you get the Python.CLF file provided by the Source Insight folks. | |
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| Incremental Search, support Python scripting. | |
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| Add Python with a free download from the Textpad site. | |
| X | X | Supports syntax coloring and autocompletion using a wordfile. An updated version that supports Python 2.x is also available. | |
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| Visual Tkinter, the Python language and visual graphic interface designed for program developers. Write programs were tailored to the needs of visual GUI top-level support. Since December 2008 we project growth continues Visual Tkinter saves time and mistakes. Fast fault detection system and directs you to the appropriate line. Scintilla class library is used for coloring paper. | |
| X | X | Class browsing, code folding, auto-completion, integrated CVS, project management, Python aware smart indenting, syntax coloring and builtin Python scripting. | |
| X | X | Supports debugging Python, Tcl, Ruby, Perl, Lua scripts. Code intelligence (Code completion, folding, auto-complete, code snippets, syntax highlighting matching tags, show keyword or variable information when mouse over...). Keyword help and improved script document. Integrated commonly-used scripting libraries (Tk, wxPython, Pygame, Pmw, Numeric...). Supports compiling python scripts to Windows EXE files. |
Macintosh-Only Editors
Name | Platform | Notes |
MacOS | Python-mode extensible in Tcl | |
MacOS X 10.4 or later | Full-featured text editor; includes Python support. TextWrangler is the free version (see below). | |
MacOS X 10.4 or later | "text editor + file transfer + svn + css + terminal + books + more = whoah. welcome to coda. grow beautiful code." | |
Mac OS X (Cocoa) | Programmer's text editor with Python syntax highlighting. Written in Python with PyObjC. Open-source (GPL). | |
OS X (Cocoa) | Fork of Smultron. No longer under development | |
MacOS | Included in MacPython distribution. | |
MacOS 68k MaOS 9 MacOS X | Does not initially include Python support but new language modes can be created. One available here Mi_Python | |
MacOS X | Python syntax coloring. Allow multiple author to edit the same file collaborativelly over the network using "Bonjour" (previously Rendezvous). | |
MacOS X 10.4 or later | Free and full-featured text editor based on BBEdit. Includes Python syntax highlighting. | |
MacOS X | Free IDE and text editor. Includes Python syntax coloring. | |
Mac OS X 10.3.9+ | Great Cocoa editor with Python support including syntax coloring, integrated documentation, and a runtime wrapper with hyperlinked tracebacks. Note that code-folding of classes is currently broken for PEP 8 compliant code. | |
Mac OS X 10.6 or later | Again under active development, support for Python syntax coloring. Only available in the Mac App Store. | |
Mac OS X 10.3 or later | Free OS X based IDE for the Python (and other) programming language (replaces discontinued PyOXIDE), with syntax coloring, completion, tool tips, source level debugger, help browser, etc... | |
Mac OS X 10.6 or later | Free text editor, with Python syntax highlighting. A paid pro version with more features is also available. |
Glorified Editors
"IDEs" that don't integrate anything Python-specific go here.
Name | Platform | Notes |
Unix + GNOME | Cross-language IDE; syntax coloring & folding for Python. | |
Linux x86 | Commercial IDE with support to 30 other languages. | |
Unix | Commercial cross-language IDE; nice multi-user project manager. | |
Python + wxPython | Simple, Highly Customizable Editor/Environment. A Tribute to DrScheme. | |
Java + Jython + Python | An OpenSource IDE for Python, Jython, and Java. Supports Syntax highlighting, Code Completion and many more. Developed in Java. | |
Python + Tkinter + Tix | An extended version of IDLE using Tix. | |
Java | Java IDE with Python support through Pythonid plugin - includes code completion, syntax & error highlighting, intra-file refactoring | |
Unix + KDE | Cross-language IDE for KDE - supports Python syntax/projects. | |
Java | A Java IDE with an optional plugin for Jython. | |
Windows/X (Python+wxPython) | Written in Python - code folding, snippets, unicode, multiple documents, code completion, several languages, macros. | |
Windows | Available either as part of ActiveState's ActivePython distribution (which is not open source) or as part of the Win32All extensions from Mark's pages (which is open source). | |
Unix/Windows/Mac | rope is a python IDE aimed at providing a rich set of software refactorings. | |
Unix/Windows with Tcl/Tk | Cross-language IDE & Source code analysis tool. | |
Eclipse | Python and PHP IDE; available in commercial Professional and open-source Foundation versions | |
Windows | GUI designer for wxPython. | |
Linux/Windows/Mac | Full featured, free (Affero GPL licensed) IDE bundled with wxPython, features projects, scintilla, and debugging | |
Unix/Windows/Mac | Non-free Cross-language GUI dialog designer with integrated support for editing your Python callback functions. | |
Unix/Windows/Mac | A "designer" for WxPython (requires wxPython) | |
Unix/Windows/Mac | Multi-language editor that support python autocomplete, Direcotry/class browser, tags/multi-views editing, unicode, and Django wizard(requires wxPython) | |
Python Tkinter | GUI, class browser, file manager, with code completion. Licensed under the GPL. |
Enhanced Python shells
Name | Platform | Notes |
Python + PyCrust | Interactive Python shell included in wxPython. | |
Python + PySlices | New "notebook" version of PyCrust with save/load features and the ability to run blocks of code in separate "slices". | |
Unix, MacOS X, Windows | Enhanced interactive Python shell. Also usable as pythonic system shell (bash/cmd.exe) replacement. Supports autocompletion. Inline syntax highlighting. (ShowMeDo Videos) | |
Java, at least 1.4 | Interactive, embeddable Jython shell with code completion. Licensed under the QPL. | |
win32 | Interactive python shell using wxPython. py script and exe for win. Data plotting capability from within the shell. Free. | |
KDE | An interactive Python shell using PyKDE and a KHTMLPart (for HTML rendering). | |
Python 2.3 (or higher) and PyQt | An interactive Python shell using PyQt. | |
Unix, MacOS X | Interactive shell with highlighting and autocomplete. |
Mobile Device Editors
"IDEs" that run on mobile devices and tablets.
Name | Platform | Notes |
iOS | Universal iOS (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) IDE. | |
iOS | IDE for iPad | |
iOS | A Python Interpreter focused on math modules |
Other Resources
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Vaults of Parnassus Editor/IDE page.
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Open Directory Project's Python Tools page.
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PySmell provides autocompletion for Vim, Emacs and TextMate
Never ending debate
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摘自”http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors“