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Multiplatform Editors

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://codeblocks.org/features.shtml Code::Blocks]

Linux, Windows

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class browser does not currently work for .py files, but it's still a nice IDE to use for python projects

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

Linux, MacOS X

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The link points to the features page.

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

Linux,Windows,FreeBSD

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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

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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

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

[http://context.cx ConText]

Unix(?), Windows, Mac(?)

X

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Text Editor that can work with many formats, such as HTML and Javascript, and it also includes a Python reader.

[http://www.die-offenbachs.de/eric/index.html eric3 and eric4]

Unix,Windows

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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

?

X

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

DrPython

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

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

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

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others

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"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

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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.

[http://www.editra.org Editra]

Linux, Mac OS X, Windows

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A general purpose developer's text editor written in Python/wxPython. It supports python syntax highlighting, auto-ident, and auto-completion. Extensible with plugins written in python.

EmacsEditor

Unix, Windows, Mac

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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

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

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

Windows, Unix/X

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

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

Java

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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://projects.hepforge.org/jhepwork/ jHepWork]

Java

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IDE with Jython Shell. Syntax coloring for python, extensible with jython, supports many file formats, fully customisable, has sidebar for class and functions

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

Unix, Windows

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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.

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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.

[http://www.jedit.org/ JEdit]

Java

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

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

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

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

[http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_ide/ Komodo IDE]

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. There is a open-source version called Komodo Edit, as part of the OpenKomodo project started November 2007.

[http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/ Komodo Edit]

Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

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Komodo Edit is an [http://www.openkomodo.com/ open-sourced], [http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/edit_comparison.mhtml scaled-down version of Komodo IDE] which also supports Python.

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

Unix, Windows, Mac

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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

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

[http://nedit.org/ NEdit]

Unix, VMS, Win32, MacOS X

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X-Based, Python support builtin.

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

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others

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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

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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)

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[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)

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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

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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). [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)

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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.

ViImproved (Vim)

Unix, Windows, MacOS, etc.

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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....

Unix-Only Editors

Name

Platform

FreeSoftware?

ZeroPrice?

Notes

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

Unix/X

?

?

Extensible in Python

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

Unix + QT

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scintilla based, with python scriptable text editor.

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

Unix + Gnome

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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

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

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

Unix

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Color-highlighting WordStar-like editor supports many highlight modes

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

Unix

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Advanced editor for the KDE environment - supports Python syntax (uses Kate component).

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

Unix

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KDE Advanced Text Editor - 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://quanta.sourceforge.net/ Quanta KDE]

Linux + KDE

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Full-featured web development environment that also supports Python.

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

Unix + Gnome

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

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

Unix

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

[http://sourceforge.net/projects/xrope/ xrope]

Python Tkinter

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GUI, class browser, file manager, with code completion. Licensed under the GPL.

Windows-Only Editors

Name

Syntax Highlighting

FreeSoftware?

ZeroPrice?

Python-specific notes

[http://www.boxersoftware.com/ Boxer Text Editor]

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X

X

Add Python syntax highlighting by downloading free support file from Downloads page.

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

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X

X

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

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X

X

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

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[http://www.e-texteditor.com/ e]

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X

X

Comes with the Python bundle from TextMate

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

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X

X

[http://www.editpadpro.com/ EditPadPro]

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X

X

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

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X

X

Autocompletion via description files.

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

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X

X

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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X

X

Syntax coloring customizable.

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

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X

X

Builtin support for Python.

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

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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]

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

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

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

[http://sapien.com/ PrimalCode]

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X

X

Auto-completion.

[http://sapien.com/ PrimalScript]

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X

X

Auto-completion

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

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X

X

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

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

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X

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Class browser, auto-completion, syntax highlighting, ftp client, project files, hex editor, file differences. Scriptable with Python (requires Windows Scripting Host and Python win32).

PyScripter

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

[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=78018 PythonWin]

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X

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

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

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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]

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?

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Incremental Search, support Python scripting.

[http://www.sublimetext.com/ Sublime Text]

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X

X

Beautiful interface, Python syntax highlighting, Python plugins.

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

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X

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Add Python with a free download from the Textpad site.

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

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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]

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X

X

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

Macintosh-Only Editors

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...

Glorified Editors

"IDEs" that don't integrate anything Python-specific go here.

Name

Platform

Notes

[http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/ Anjuta]

Unix + GNOME

Cross-language IDE; syntax coloring & folding for Python.

[http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/jcc/jcc.php Code Crusader]

Linux x86

Commercial IDE with support to 30 other languages.

[http://www.codeforge.com/ CodeForge]

Unix

Commercial cross-language IDE; nice multi-user project manager.

[http://drpython.sourceforge.net/ DrPython]

Python + wxPython

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

["Genie Jython"]

Java + Jython + Python

An OpenSource IDE for Python, Jython, and Java. Supports Syntax highlighting, Code Completion and many more. Developed in ["Java"].

["IDEStudio"]

Python + Tkinter + Tix

An extended version of IDLE using ["Tix"].

["IDLE"]

Python + Tkinter

Part of Python distribution.

[http://jetbrains.com/ IntelliJ IDEA]

Java

Java IDE with Python support through [http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=631 Pythonid plugin] - includes code completion, syntax & error highlighting, intra-file refactoring

[http://www.kdevelop.org/ KDevelop]

Unix + KDE

Cross-language IDE for KDE - supports Python syntax/projects.

[http://netbeans.org Netbeans]

Java

A Java IDE with an optional plugin for Jython.

["PyPE"]

PythonWin

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).

[http://rope.sf.net/ rope]

Unix/Windows/Mac

rope is a python IDE aimed at providing a rich set of software refactorings.

[http://sourcenav.sf.net/ SourceNavigator]

Unix/Windows with Tcl/Tk

Cross-language IDE & Source code analysis tool.

[http://www.xored.com/trustudio TruStudio]

Eclipse

Python and PHP IDE; available in commercial Professional and open-source Foundation versions

VisualWx

Windows

GUI designer for wxPython.

[http://activegrid.sourceforge.net/ WaveMaker]

Linux/Windows/Mac

Full featured, free (Affero GPL licensed) IDE bundled with wxPython, features projects, scintilla, and debugging

WxDesigner

Unix/Windows/Mac

Non-free Cross-language GUI dialog designer with integrated support for editing your Python callback functions.

WxGlade

Unix/Windows/Mac

A "designer" for WxPython (requires wxPython)

[http://code.google.com/p/ulipad Ulipad]

Unix/Windows/Mac

Multi-language editor that support python autocomplete, Direcotry/class browser, tags/multi-views editing, unicode, and Django wizard(requires wxPython)

[http://sourceforge.net/projects/xrope/ xrope]

Python Tkinter

GUI, class browser, file manager, with code completion. Licensed under the GPL.

Enhanced Python shells

Name

Platform

Notes

[http://wxpython.org/py.php PyCrust]

Python + PyCrust

Interactive Python shell included in 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://dev.artenum.com/projects/jyconsole JyConsole]

Java, at least 1.4

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

[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.

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