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Multiplatform Editors
Name
Platform
Impl. Language
License
Notes
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X
Tcl/Tk
Proprietary
Extensible in Tcl, Tk; Can interact with python.
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X
Python
MIT
Python language support for Atom-IDE, powered by the Python language server.
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, 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/Lfinux.
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X
C, GTK+
GPLv2
CSS editor with syntax highlighting for Python, and embedded 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.
Linux, 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. Integrated version control interface for Git, Subversion and Mercurial through core plugins. eric6 requires Python 3 (and, if desired, PyQt5), and supports CxFreeze and PyInstaller, Django and Pyramid, PyLint and Vulture
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.
Linux, Windows, Mac OS
Python, PyQt4
GPLv3
Extensible editor written in Python, Python/C/Nim code tree browser, 3-window editing, text diff, multi-language support, Python REPL, manipulate editor text with Python code
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, 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.
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 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.
Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD
Go, Lua
MIT
A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor (nano successor)
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. v2.4 released 2012-04
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.
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Java
Apache 2.0
Full-featured IDE for Python. Has Free and Open Source edition fully supporting Python as well as proprietary Professional Edition with Django, Flask, Pyramid and Google App Engine support.
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Java, Eclipse
EPL
Eclipse plugin. Code-completion. Debugger. Under active development.
Linux, Windows
Python, Tk
GPLv3
Ultra-lightweight Python/text editor made in Python with Tk. Emphasis on easy customization and no-bloat attitude.
PyBoard, Unix, Windows, Mac OS X
Python
MIT
Written in Python - simple small editor, suitable for MicroPython/circuitPython/Pycopy.
Unix, Windows, Mac OS X
Python, wxPython
GPLv2
Written in Python - code folding, snippets, unicode, multiple documents, code completion, several languages, macros.
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
MIT
Free open-source extension for Visual Studio Code. Supports syntax highlighting, debugging, code completion, code navigation, refactoring, with support for Django, multi threaded, local and remote debugging.
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.
Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X
Python, PySide
BSD License
Open-source Python IDE focused on interactivity and introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing. Its practical design is aimed at simplicity and efficiency. Pyzo consists of two main components, the editor and the shell, and uses a set of pluggable tools to help the programmer in various ways: e.g. source structure, interactive help, workspace, file browser (with functionality for searching). Also includes a post-mortem 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.
Windows, Linux, macOS
Python, PyQt5
MIT
Spyder is a powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python,and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts. It features a unique combination of the advanced editing, analysis, debugging and profiling functionality of a comprehensive development tool with the data exploration, interactive execution, deep inspection and beautiful visualization capabilities of a scientific package. Furthermore, Spyder offers built-in integration with many popular scientific packages, including NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, IPython, QtConsole, Matplotlib, SymPy, and more. Beyond its many built-in features, Spyder's abilities can be extended even further via first- and third-party plugins. It is conveniently integrated in the cross-platform Anaconda 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
C++, Python
Proprietary
Beautiful interface, Python syntax highlighting, Python plugins.
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Python
MIT
For teaching/learning programming. Focused on program runtime visualization. Provides stepping both in statements and expressions, no-hassle variables view, separate mode for explaining references etc.
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.
Linux, Windows
Python, wxPython
GPL
Simple text editor written in python. Syntax highlighter, Code fold, Export code in HTML...
Unix-Only Editors
Unix + GTK
(./)
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.
Windows-Only Editors
Name
Platform
Impl. Language
License
Notes
Windows
C++
GPL
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power consumption, resulting in a greener environment.
Windows
Pascal/Delphi
MIT
Free and open-source Python IDE created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial Windows-based IDEs
Macintosh-Only Editors
Name
Platform
Notes
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Full-featured text editor; includes Python support. TextWrangler is the free version (see below).
Mac OS X 10.7 or later
General purpose editor with autocompletion for the Python standard library, plus inline documentation.
Mac OS 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).
Mac OS 68k Mac OS 9 Mac OS X
Does not initially include Python support but new language modes can be created. One available here Mi_Python
Mac OS X
Python syntax coloring. Allow multiple author to edit the same file collaborativelly over the network using "Bonjour" (previously Rendezvous).
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Free and full-featured text editor based on BBEdit. Includes Python syntax highlighting.
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.
Online Editors
Name
Notes
A general web-based IDE with support for Python. Provides a full Ubuntu environment with Python 3.10, and support for Django workspaces.
"Host, run, and code Python in the cloud!" Free and paid plans include access to multiple versions of CPython, PyPy, IPython notebooks, a large selection of third-party modules, bash and MySQL shells, and more.
A collection of computational mathematics tools in the cloud, including IPython notebooks, SageMath, Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib, and Cython.
A JupyterLab distribution that runs entirely in the browser built from the ground-up using JupyterLab components and extensions.
A hosted Jupyter Notebook service that requires no setup to use and provides free access to computing resources, including GPUs and TPUs.
Online Python compiler which supports libraries, file handling & data visualization. Available as Python Code Runner for Chrome.
Glorified Editors
"IDEs" that don't integrate anything Python-specific go here.
Name
Platform
Notes
Windows
Cross-language IDE with integrated SQL support and automation features (currently German only GUI)
Java + Jython + Python
An OpenSource IDE for Python, Jython, and Java. Supports Syntax highlighting, Code Completion and many more. Developed in Java.
Java
Java IDE with Python support through Pythonid plugin - includes code completion, syntax & error highlighting, intra-file refactoring
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).
Eclipse
Python and PHP IDE; available in commercial Professional and open-source Foundation versions
Linux/Windows/Mac
Full featured, free 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
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 + PySlices
New "notebook" version of PyCrust with save/load features and the ability to run blocks of code in separate "slices".
Unix, Mac OS X, Windows
Enhanced interactive Python shell. Also usable as pythonic system shell (bash/cmd.exe) replacement. Supports autocompletion. Inline syntax highlighting.
Java, at least 1.4
Interactive, embeddable Jython shell with code completion. Licensed under the QPL.
Python, Windows
Interactive python shell using wxPython. py script and exe for win. Data plotting capability from within the shell. Free.
Mobile Device Editors
"IDEs" that run on mobile devices and tablets.
Name
Platform
Notes
iOS
A patch of Python-3.7.1, designed to make it compile on iOS. Python becomes a framework, and your programs call python_main(argc, argv) to execute python scripts.
iOS
IDE for iOS with native graphic and sound support through high-level API; games and interactive demos included
iOS
IDE for iPhone and iPad with Python 3 support. Custom library is supported. See Python Box page for details.
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