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Easiest Free Python Editor For Mac

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  1. Python On The Mac
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  • First look on Thonny (Jeff Elkner, 2016-01-23)

  • Evaluating IDEs for Scientific Python (Patrick Mineault, 2013-05-27)

  • Comparison of Python IDEs for Development(Jason Fruit, 2013-01-14)

  • Do Python Coding with NINJA-IDE(Dmitri Popov, 2011-07-13)

  • InfoWorld review: Nine fine Python development tools (Rick Grehan, 2010-09-08)

  • Stackoverflow 'what IDE to use for python' (Various, 2009-01-01)

  • Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform, GUI Editor/IDE For Python? (Various, 2008-09-16)

  • Wing IDE Professional 3.1.1: An IDE for Python (Dr. Dobb's Journal, June 9, 2008)

  • September 2005 Review of 6 Python IDEs (PyDev, Eric3, Boa, BlackAdder, Komodo, Wing) and the February 2006 follow-up review of 4 (PyDev, SPE, Komodo, Wing)

  • A New Harvest of Python IDEs (Boudewijn Rempt, 2000-11-27)

See also Wikipedia's list of Python IDEs and these ShowMeDo videos for Wing 3 ProfessionalSPE, PyDev (inside Eclipse) and IPython.

Name

Platform

Updated

Notes

Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, more

2018

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.

Windows/Linux/Mac OS X

2017

Multi-language IDE with support for Python 2.x and Python 3. Available as Komodo IDE (commercial).

Linux/Mac OS X/Windows

2018

Commercial Eclipse-based IDE which provides a standalone bundling PyDev, Workspace Mechanic, Eclipse Color Theme, StartExplorer and AnyEdit, along with lightweigth support for other languages, and other usability enhancements (such as multi-caret-edition).

Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows

2016

Python/Jython support in NetBeans -- Open source, allows Python and Jython Editing, code-completion, debugger, refactoring, templates, syntax analysis, etc.; see http://wiki.netbeans.org/Python. Note: the Python plugin as a community-supported project, and may trail behind. Currently it works for 8.1, does not appear to be available for 8.2

Linux/Mac OS X/Windows

2018

Community is a free open-source IDE with a smart Python editor providing quick code navigation, code completion, refactoring, unit testing and debugger. Commercial Professional edition fully supports Web development with Django, Flask, Mako and Web2Py and allows to develop remotely. JetBrains offers free PyCharm professional licenses for open-source projects under certain conditions https://www.jetbrains.com/buy/opensource/, also for Student/Educational use.

Linux/Mac OS X/Windows

2018

Free open-source extension for Visual Studio Code (now maintained by Microsoft). Supports syntax highlighting, debugging, code completion, code navigation, unit testing, refactoring, with support for Django, multi threaded, local and remote debugging.

Linux/Mac OS X/(Windows)

2017

Free open-source IDE with a focus on static analysis-based code completion, navigation and highlighting. Also features a VI emulation mode.

Eclipse

2018

Free, open-source plugin for Eclipse -- Allows Python, Jython, and IronPython editing, code-completion, debugger, refactoring, quick navigation, templates, code analysis, unittest integration, Django integration, etc.

Windows, Linux, Mac OS X

2019

Family of free and commercial Python IDEs with advanced debugger, editor with vi, emacs, visual studio and other key bindings, auto-completion, auto-editing, multi-selection, inline code warnings, snippets, goto-definition, find uses, refactoring, unit testing, remote development, array and dataframe viewer, bookmarking, source browser, PEP 8 reformatting, and much more. There are several product levels, including free and paid versions with a fully functional trial and free licenses for educational use and unpaid open source developers. See product comparison and pricing for details.

Windows

2012

MIT licensed IDE written in Delphi with debugger, integrated unit testing, source browser, code navigation and syntax coloring/auto-completing editor.

Windows/Linux/macOS

2018

A powerful, free/open-source scientific environment written in Python, for Python,and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts. 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, offers built-in integration with many popular scientific packages, including NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, IPython, QtConsole, Matplotlib, SymPy, and more, and can be easily extended with plugins. It is conveniently integrated in the cross-platform Anaconda distribution, and is the centerpiece of the Python(x,y) and WinPython distributions.

IDLE

Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/All Tk Platforms

2018

Multi-window colorized source browser, autoindent, autocompletion, tool tips, code context panel, search in files, class and path browsers, debugger, executes code in clean separate subprocess with one keystroke. 100% pure Python, part of Python 2.x and 3.x distributions (may be packaged separately in some situations).

Windows/Linux/Mac OS X/All Tk Platforms

2016

IdleX is a collection of over twenty extensions and plugins that provide additional functionality to IDLE, a Python IDE provided in the standard library. It transforms IDLE into a more useful tool for academic research and development as well as exploratory programming.

Windows (needs to be compiled manually for other platforms)

2010

An open-source IDE, created using Lazarus. It's only for Python. include syntax highlighting, project manager, and uses pdb for debugging.

Windows/Linux/Mac OS X

2018

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.

Windows/Linux/Mac OS X

2014

An interactive environment for python built around a matlab style console window and editor. It was designed to provide a python based environment similiar to Matlab for scientists and engineers however it can also be used as a general purpose interactive python environment especially for interactive GUI programming. 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.

Windows/Linux/Mac OS X

2012

Open-source plugin that adds syntax checking, integrated debugger and module search to Editra, a general purpose developer's text editor that supports python syntax highlighting, auto-indent, auto-completion, classbrowser, and can run scripts from inside the editor.

Windows

2017

Open-source plugin for Visual Studio 2010, 2012 onwards (now maintained by Microsoft). Supports syntax highlighting, debugging and rich intellisense, unit testing, refactoring, object browser, MPI cluster debugging, Django intellisense and debugging, development REPL window and a debugging REPL window. Supports mixed-mode Python/C/C++ debugging.

Mac OS X

2015

Commercial with feature-limited free trial. A Mac-native, single-window IDE inspired by Xcode. Features integrated debugger, tabs, code completion with tab triggers, syntax highlighting themes, search and replace with regex, integrated REPL sessions, goto definition, file browser, integrated documentation browser. As of June 2015, does not support input() meaning any console input using this function is not supported.

  1. On Mac, the most popular text editor is BBEdit (of which TextWrangler is a free version). Every Windows installation comes with Notepad, but some excellent replacements to consider are Notepad2, Notepad++, and TextPad.
  2. Best Python IDE For Windows, Linux And Mac OS - Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the best tools a programmer can wield. It allows developers to work efficiently and forget about the boilerplate.

Name

Platform

Updated

Notes

Windows/Mac/Linux

2012

Komodo Edit (open source, as part of the Open Komodo project). Little brother to Komodo IDE.

Windows/Linux

2004

Commercial; integrated debugger; interfaces with Qt Designer

Python + PyQt + QScintilla

2018

Open Source, interfaces with Qt Designer, Qt Linguist, unittest; integrated debugger

Windows, Linux, MacOsX, FreeBSD, more

2008

Open-source with wxPython interface. Code completion, call tips, class explorer, source index, auto todo list, Blender support, integrated PyChecker (source code doctor) and Kiki (regex console). Download instructions

Linux, FreeBSD, ..., (Windows in progress)

2007 (2008 dev)

Open-source with GTK interface, written in Python. Supports different languages, python trough rope and pyflakes as well as rpdb2. Support different Editors (Vim, Medit, Emacs) Current Repos

.net CLR

26/7/2009

FOSS IDE uses IronPython to support making python module solutions.

Python + PyQt + (Linux/Windows/Mac OS X)

2011

NINJA-IDE (from: 'Ninja Is Not Just Another IDE'), is a cross-platform integrated development environment specially design to build Python Applications.

Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

10/01/2012

Aptana Studio3 is a professional, open source development tool for the open web

Windows, Linux and Mac OSX

2014

Python 3x IDE with emphasis on power, usability and simplicity.

Why The Best Python Ide. Vim is a command line editor and hence can be used for remote development. Replacing all string occurrences in 100MB+ files is quick and easy.

Name

Platform

Updated

Notes

Windows/Linux/Mac

2012

OpenSource (GPL) powerful cross platform (Win,Mac,Linux) RAD GUI IDE, includes a integrated QtDesigner supports Python+PyQt4

Python + wxPython

2007

RAD GUI building IDE for wxPython, similar to Delphi.

Python + wxPython

2006

RAD GUI building IDE

Mac OS X 10.5 and later

2008

Apple's free of charge IDE now with full Python GUI making. Requires free developer registration for download.

Python + Tkinter

2012-04-23

Visual graphic interface. Python GUI

Windows

2011

Integrated WPF GUI Designer for IronPython (Free/OSS)

Take a look at PythonEditors if you prefer something lightweight. IDEs that don't integrate anything Python-specific are also listed at PythonEditors#Glorified_Editors.

Mac

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Download the latest Python 3 and Python 2 source.

Alternative Implementations

This site hosts the 'traditional' implementation of Python (nicknamed CPython). A number of alternative implementations are available as well.

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Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python’s principal author, although it includes many contributions from others.

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Information about specific ports, and developer info

OpenPGP Public Keys

Source and binary executables are signed by the release manager using their OpenPGP key. The release managers and binary builders since Python 2.3 have been:

  • Anthony Baxter (key id: 6A45C816)
  • Georg Brandl (key id: 36580288)
  • Ned Deily (key ids: AA65421D, 6F5E1540, and Apple Developer ID DJ3H93M7VJ)
  • Steve Dower (key id: 487034E5)
  • Larry Hastings (key id: F73C700D)
  • Łukasz Langa (key id: 10250568)
  • Martin v. Löwis (key id: 7D9DC8D2)
  • Ronald Oussoren (key id: E6DF025C)
  • Benjamin Peterson (key id: 18ADD4FF and A4135B38)
  • Barry Warsaw (key ids: A74B06BF, EA5BBD71, and ED9D77D5)

Note: Barry's key id A74B06BF is used to sign the Python 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 releases. His key id EA5BBD71 was used to sign all other Python 2.6 and 3.0 releases. His key id ED9D77D5 is a v3 key and was used to sign older releases; because it is an old MD5 key and rejected by more recent implementations, ED9D77D5 is no longer included in the public key file.


You can import the release manager public keys by either downloading the public key file from here and then running

or by grabbing the individual keys directly from the keyserver network by running this command:

On the version-specific download pages, you should see a link to both the downloadable file and a detached signature file. To verify the authenticity of the download, grab both files and then run this command:

Note that you must use the name of the signature file, and you should use the one that's appropriate to the download you're verifying.

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  • (These instructions are geared to GnuPG and Unix command-line users. Contributions of instructions for other platforms and OpenPGP applications are welcome.)

Other Useful Items

  • Looking for 3rd party Python modules? The Package Index has many of them.
  • You can view the standard documentation online, or you can download it in HTML, PostScript, PDF and other formats. See the main Documentation page.
  • Information on tools for unpacking archive files provided on python.org is available.
  • Tip: even if you download a ready-made binary for your platform, it makes sense to also download the source. This lets you browse the standard library (the subdirectory Lib) and the standard collections of demos (Demo) and tools (Tools) that come with it. There's a lot you can learn from the source!
  • There is also a collection of Emacs packages that the Emacsing Pythoneer might find useful. This includes major modes for editing Python, C, C++, Java, etc., Python debugger interfaces and more. Most packages are compatible with Emacs and XEmacs.

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