

), I am a fan of ActiveState's Komodo IDE. That said, having tried a bunch of IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans, XCode, Komodo, P圜harm. Nowadays most editors from vim upwards can be used, there are multiple good alternatives, and even IDEs that started as C or Java tools work pretty well with Python and other dynamic languages. ?" is a longstanding way to start a "My dog is too prettier than yours!" slapfest. Pycharm - Another solid full on IDE for Python.Sublime Text - This is really sweet text editor that has some surprisingly good Python support.I've personally found it too unstable for my usage.

Idle - Python's own little editor, has some nice features, but also some major problems.Smultron - Very nice editor, the UI is similar to Textmate.The defacto editor before Textmate stole its limelight. TextWrangler - Lite, free (as in beer) verision of BBEdit.Jedit - Java based text editor, has some nice features, but the startup time isn't great (due to Java).Textmate - costs money, people love this program, but I haven't used it enough to see what all the fuss is about.Netbeans has a beta Python plugin that is a little rough around the edges, but could turn into something really cool.Īdditionally there is a long list of programming centric text editors for the mac, that may or may not fit your needs. Pydev for Eclipse, as others have mentioned, is good.
