Name

Platform

FreeSoftware?

ZeroPrice?

Notes

[http://www.purl.org/net/alphatk/about.html Alphatk]

Unix,Windows,Mac OS X

X

X

Extensible in Tcl, Tk; Can interact with python.

[http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/features.html Bluefish]

Linux, MacOS X

The link points to the features page.

[http://cream.sourceforge.net Cream]

Linux,Windows,FreeBSD

Cream is a free and easy-to-use configuration of the powerful and famous [http://www.vim.org Vim] text editor for both Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux.

[http://cssed.sourceforge.net Cssed]

Linux,Windows,Mac OS X, BSD

Editor with syntax highlighting for Python, and embeded Python interpreter. Extensible through a Python API.

[http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/PythonCardEditor codeEditor]

Unix, Windows, Mac

Extensible in Python; part of [http://www.pythoncard.org/ PythonCard]. Includes PyCrust shell.

[http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html eric3]

Unix,Windows

Complete IDE, very well integrated with PyQT development, but usable for any kind of project. Supports projects, debugging, auto-complete, syntax coloring, etc.

[http://www.crisp.demon.co.uk/ CRiSP]

Unix, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, SGI Irix, Windows, Cygwin, MacOS

?

?

BRIEF-compatible, supports Python syntax, in-buffer Python interpreter, supports lots of languages. Powerful macro language.

DrPython

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Simple, Highly Customizable Editor/Environment. A Tribute to DrScheme.

[http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse]

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others

"Eclipse is ... an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular." Support for Python can be obtained via the [http://pydev.sourceforge.net/ PyDEV] plugin.

[http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse+Afae]

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others

In addition to PyDEV, support for Python can be obtained via the [http://afae.robrohan.com/ Afae] plugin which supports many languages (Afae also shows whitespace).

[http://www.editpadpro.com/editpython.html EditPad Pro]

Windows, Linux

X

X

Powerful and flexible text editor with 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.

EmacsEditor

Unix, Windows, Mac

Python support with EmacsPythonMode. Extensible in Python using [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/pymacs/ pymacs]

[http://www.lugaru.com/ Epsilon]

Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and OS/2

X

X

Customizable Python mode, syntax coloring, function tagging.

[http://fte.sourceforge.net/ FTE Text Editor]

Windows, Unix, DOS, OS/2 console, Unix/X

Supports lots of languages, including Python; doesn't seem programmable

[http://geany.uvena.de// Geany]

Windows, Unix/X

A small and lightweight GTK+ IDE that supports lots of languages, including Python

[http://armedbear-j.sf.net/ J]

Java

?

?

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

[http://www.jasspa.com/ Jasspa's MicroEmacs]

Unix, Windows

?

?

Supports Python syntax and a Python-specific menu.

[http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jedsoft/jed/ JED]

Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and Windows.

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.

JedIt

Java

Has two plugins - one for Jython and one for Python/Jython [http://jpydbg.sourceforge.net/ JpyDbg] - interactive editing debugging, code browsing, highlighting.

JeXt

Java

A Java text editor which offers embedded Python scripting (thanks to Jython).

[http://jpydbg.sourceforge.net/ JpyDbg]

Win, Linux, Mac ([http://www.netbeans.org/ Netbeans] [http://www.jedit.org/ jEdit] cross IDE Plugin)

[http://www.netbeans.org/ Netbeans] [http://www.jedit.org/ jEdit] cross IDE plugin

[http://activestate.com/Products/Komodo/ Komodo]

Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

X

X

Komodo is an award winning Python IDE from [http://activestate.com/ ActiveState]. Fully-integrated python support featuring code intelligence with autocomplete and calltips, python debugger (includes remote debugging), interactive shell, remote file support, macros, templating, emacs command support and it all comes with great help documentation.

[http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Leo]

Unix, Windows, Mac

Outlining editor, fully scriptable and extensible, supporting [http://www.literateprogramming.com literate programming]. 100% pure Python code.

[http://www.med-editor.com/indexus.html MED]

Windows, OS/2

X

X

Auto-completion, customizable keybindings, section browser...

[http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/ medit]

Unix,Windows

Gtk editor with python bindings, allows plugins written in python.

[http://nedit.org/ NEdit]

Unix, VMS, Win32, MacOS X

X-Based, Python support builtin.

[http://www.netbeans.org/ Netbeans]

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others

Netbeans is an open extensible cross platform IDE ; Support for Python can be obtained via the [http://jpydbg.sourceforge.net/ JpyDbg] plugin.

[http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/UliPad UliPad]

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

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.

[http://www.digitalwandering.com/ Pepper]

MacOS Classic/MacOS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 2k/XP

?

?

Builtin support for Python. Was defunct, now revived. Incremental search. No tabbed-interface.

[http://pydev.sf.net/ pyDev]

Win, Linux, Mac ([http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse] Plugin)

[http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse] plugin. Code-completion. Debugger. Under active development. ([http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=PyDevEclipseList ShowMeDo Videos])

[http://pype.sourceforge.net/ PyPE]

Windows/X (Python+wxPython)

Written in Python - code folding, snippets, unicode, multiple documents, code completion, several languages, macros.

[http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/PythonCardEditor PythonCardEditor]

Unix/Windows/Mac

?

?

Extensible in Python, part of PythonCard.

SciTe

Unix/Windows

An application of the widely-used Scintilla rich text widget/control. [http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/gen_python_api.zip Python API] for calltips and autocompletion available.

[http://wiki.python.org/moin/SPE SPE]

Windows, Linux, Mac OS X (Python+wxPython)

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. [http://www.blender3d.org Blender] support with a Blender 3D object browser, runs interactively inside Blender. Ships with WxGlade (GUI designer), PyChecker (source code doctor) and [http://project5.freezope.org/kiki/ Kiki] (regular expression console). Extensible with WxGlade. ([http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=PythonDevelopmentWithSPE ShowMeDo Videos])

[http://www.slickedit.com/ SlickEdit]

Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, HP-UX and Mac OS X

X

X

Syntax coloring, popup function arguments, class hierarchy browser, other nice Python features. Context tagging with class/module namespaces, code navigation, and smart indenting are also supported.

[http://www.vim.org ViImproved (Vim)]

Unix, Windows, MacOS, etc.

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 [http://cream.sourceforge.net Cream].

[http://wingware.com/wingide Wing IDE]

Windows, Linux, and MacOS with X11 Server

X

X

Powerful commercial IDE designed for 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. ([http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=pythonOzsvaldWingIDEIntro ShowMeDo Videos])

[http://soft.kaworu.it/wxKonTEXTen.htm wxKonTEXT]

Unix/Windows

?

?

Simple text editor written in python. Syntax highlighter, Code fold, Export code in HTML....

Name

Platform

FreeSoftware?

ZeroPrice?

Notes

[http://cooledit.sourceforge.net/ Cooledit]

Unix/X

?

?

Extensible in Python

[http://cute.sourceforge.net/ CUTE]

Unix + QT

scintilla based, with python scriptable text editor.

[http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/ gedit]

Unix + Gnome

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment, with Python syntax highlighting.

[http://glimmer.sourceforge.net/ Glimmer]

Unix + Gnome

?

?

Editor written in C with Python bindings.

[http://www.nano-editor.org GNU nano]

ncurses

Tiny, fast, compatible but enhanced pico clone. nano can do syntax highlighting (some nano [http://www.simisen.com/jmg/notes/nano.html tips]).

[http://sourceforge.net/projects/joe-editor/ JOE]

Unix

Color-highlighting WordStar-like editor supports many highlight modes

[http://www.kde.org/ KWrite]

Unix

Advanced editor for the KDE environment - supports Python syntax.

[http://www.kate-editor.org/ Kate]

Unix

KDE Advanced Text Editor (uses KWrite component) - supports Python syntax. Now has a plugin to browse Python classes and globals.

[http://www.micampe.it/software/moleskine Moleskine]

Linux/FreeBSD

?

?

Written in Python, so should be extensible using Python.

[http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/ pyeditor]

Unix

?

?

Editor written in Python atop PyScintilla and PyGtk.

[http://quanta.sourceforge.net/ Quanta KDE]

Linux + KDE

Full-featured web development environment that also supports Python.

[http://scribes.sourceforge.net/ Scribes]

Unix + Gnome

Scribes is a simple, slim and sleek text editor for GNOME, with Python syntax highlighting.

[http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~oz/wily/ Wily]

Unix

Acme clone for Unix. Can connect to it (and control it) from Python.

Name

Syntax Highlighting

FreeSoftware?

ZeroPrice?

Python-specific notes

[http://farmanager.com FAR]+[http://colorer.sf.net colorer]

X

X

Automatic (no wordlist) [http://plugring.farmanager.com/cgi-bin/downld.cgi?Lang=Eng&Draw=List&Sort=Date&SelectCateg=Addons&Select=PlugIn&SelectPlugIn=98&SelectAuthor=0&SelectOther=1&SearchText= autocompletion]. Also there are [http://plugring.farmanager.com/index_e.html lots of plugins] including even [http://scrhostplugin.sf.net any windows scripting host (including python) scripting]

[http://www.code-genie.com/ Code-Genie]

X

X

[http://www.codewright.com/ CodeWright]

X

X

Pull the appropriate file from http://www.codewright.com/support/addons.asp for Python support.

[http://www.context.cx/ ConText]

?

Spaces instead of tabs (and one backspace to delete four spaces). Code templates.

[http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ Crimson]

?

[http://www.studioware.com/ Editeur]

X

X

[http://www.editplus.com/ EditPlus]

X

X

Autocompletion via description files.

[http://www.emurasoft.com/ EmEditor]

X

X

Unicode and multibyte languages support. Extremely fast. Find/Replace in Files. Supports JavaScript/VBScript scripting.

[http://hapdebugger.sourceforge.net/ HAP Debugger]

?

Editor built on SciTe; main claim to fame is a robust debugger that has remote capabilities.

[http://www.hurricanesoft.com/ Hurricane Editor]

X

X

Syntax coloring customizable.

[http://www.multiedit.com/ Multi-Edit]

X

X

Builtin support for Python.

[http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ NotePad++]

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!

[http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html NotePad2]

Supports Python Syntax highlighting by default. Great Notepad replacement for windows. Source available for download.

[http://www.pnotepad.org/ PN2]

Python syntax highlighting, quick code navigation, scripting in development, open source.

[http://sapien.com/ PrimalCode]

X

X

Auto-completion.

[http://sapien.com/ PrimalScript]

X

X

Auto-completion

[http://www.programmerstudio.com/ Programmer Studio]

X

X

Auto-completion, class browser, parameter tips, ...

[http://www.pspad.com/ PSPad]

X

Class browser, auto-completion, syntax highlighting, ftp client, project files, hex editor, file differences ..

[http://mmm-experts.com/Products.aspx?ProductId=4 PyScripter]

Auto-completion, call-tips, syntax highlighting, class browser, debugger, very fast (build with Delphi & Python for Delphi (P4D))

[http://www.python.org/windows/pythonwin/ PythonWin]

X

Auto-completion, call-tips, syntax highlighting, part of win32 ..

[http://www.sourcedyn.com/ Source Insight]

X

X

Symbol database support for Python if you get the Python.CLF file provided by the Source Insight folks.

[http://syn.sourceforge.net/ Syn]

?

Incremental Search, support Python scripting.

[http://www.textpad.com/ TextPad]

X

Add Python with a free download from the Textpad site.

[http://www.ultraedit.com/ UltraEdit]

X

X

Supports syntax coloring and autocompletion using a [http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=40 wordfile]. An [http://gurno.com/adam/py-ue.shtml updated version] that supports Python 2.x is also available.

[http://www.zeusedit.com/ Zeus]

X

X

Class browsing, code folding, auto-completion, integrated CVS, project management, Python aware smart indenting, syntax coloring and builtin Python scripting.

Name

Platform

Notes

[http://alphatcl.sf.net AlphaTcl]

MacOS

Python-mode extensible in Tcl

[http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit.html BBEdit]

MacOS 9/MacOS X

Full-featured text editor; includes Python support. TextWrangler is the free version (see below).

[http://www.idearesources.com/ irEdit]

MacOS X

Builtin support for Python. Defunct?

[http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html MacPython IDE]

MacOS

Included in MacPython distribution.

[http://www.mimikaki.net/en/mimi/download.html mi]

MacOS 68k MaOS 9 MacOS X

Does not initially include Python support but new language modes can be created. One available here [http://francois.granger.free.fr/MacPython/Mi%20Python.sit Mi_Python]

[http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/ SubEthaEdit]

MacOS X

Python syntax coloring. Allow multiple author to edit the same file collaborativelly over the network using "Bonjour" (previously Rendezvous).

[http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml TextWrangler]

MacOS X

Free and full-featured text editor based on BBEdit. Includes Python syntax highlighting.

[http://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/ Xcode]

MacOS X

Free IDE and text editor. Includes Python syntax coloring.

[http://macromates.com/ TextMate]

Mac OS X 10.3.9+

Great Cocoa editor with Python support including syntax coloring, integrated documentation, and a runtime wrapper with hyperlinked tracebacks

[http://smultron.sourceforge.net/ Smultron]

Mac OS X 10.3 or later

Open-source (GPL) text editor, with Python syntax highlighting

[http://projects.gandreas.com/scride/ ScrIDE]

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...

Name

Platform

Notes

[http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrust/ PyCrust]

Python + wxPython

Interactive Python shell using wxPython.

[http://ipython.scipy.org/ IPython]

Unix, MacOS X, Windows

Enhanced interactive Python shell. Also usable as pythonic system shell (bash/cmd.exe) replacement. Supports autocompletion. ([http://showmedo.com/videos/series?name=PythonIPythonSeries ShowMeDo Videos])

[http://spinecho.ifrance.com psi]

win32

Interactive python shell using wxPython. py script and exe for win. Data plotting capability from within the shell. Free.

[http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/KDE/khpython/ khpython]

KDE

An interactive Python shell using PyKDE and a KHTMLPart (for HTML rendering).

[http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/KDE/ PEEQ]

Python 2.3 (or higher) and PyQt

An interactive Python shell using PyQt.

[http://dev.artenum.com/projects/jyconsole JyConsole]

Java, at least 1.4

Interactive, embeddable Jython shell with code completion. Licensed under the QPL.