What's a good IDE for Python on Mac OS X? [closed]

Answer 1

Visual Studio Code + Official Python Plugin

Here you see an overview of its current Python features:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/python

Chocolat

http://chocolatapp.com

It's lightweight and offers Code Completion. Costs money.

EDIT: Apparently Chocolat was an interesting option in 2013 but since then many others came up and development stalled. Nowadays I recommend Visual Studio Code + Python Plugin.

Answer 2

Python support on netbeans is surprisingly good, and comes with most of the features you're looking for.

Answer 3

Have tried many different (Kate, Eclipse, Scite, Vim, Komodo): each one have some glitches, either limited functions, or slow and unresponsive. Final choice after many years: Emacs + ropemacs + flymake. Rope project file open dialog is extremely quick. Rope refactoring and code assist functions are super helpful. Flymake shows syntax mistakes. Emacs is the most configurable editor. I am very happy with this config. Python related part of config is here: public.halogen-dg.com browser/alex-emacs-settings/configs/cfg_python.el

Answer 4

If you have a budget for your IDE, you should give Wingware Professional a try, see wingware.com .

Answer 5

TextMate or Panic's Coda. NetBeans works very well, if you want a full-blown kitchen sink IDE.

Answer 6

Pydev for Eclipse, as others have mentioned, is good.

Netbeans has a beta Python plugin that is a little rough around the edges, but could turn into something really cool.

Additionally there is a long list of programming centric text editors for the mac, that may or may not fit your needs.

• Textmate - costs money, people love this program, but I haven't used it enough to see what all the fuss is about.
• Jedit - Java based text editor, has some nice features, but the startup time isn't great (due to Java).
• CarbonEmacs - Decent Emacs port.
• AquaEmacs - Better Emacs port.
• TextWrangler - Lite, free (as in beer) verision of BBEdit.
• BBEdit - The old guard. The defacto editor before Textmate stole its limelight. Expensive.
• Smultron - Very nice editor, the UI is similar to Textmate.
• Idle - Python's own little editor, has some nice features, but also some major problems. I've personally found it too unstable for my usage.
• Sublime Text - This is really sweet text editor that has some surprisingly good Python support.
• Pycharm - Another solid full on IDE for Python.