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.

Aug 8, 2010 · @BoltClock: Not sure this is an exact duplicate of 893162, as that question seemed to be asking for the Python IDE that was similar to Eclipse, as opposed to the best one. – Paul D. Waite Commented Aug 8, 2010 at 18:24

Jan 9, 2012 · As of March 2023, Python Releases for macOS at python.org contains "universal releases" that work on both Intel and Mn (eg, M1, M2) Macs. These installations place a Python (eg Python 3.10) folder in Applications. The folder includes an IDLE app, which opens an independent IDLE shell for that specific Python version.

Aug 1, 2021 · Sorry in Advance. I do not understand at all how python, an ide like Spyder or pycharm and e.g. anaconda interact. What I first tried to do is simply downloading anaconda navigator. I started Spyder.

Jul 29, 2014 · My advice is to stick with print() and logging as long as you can. For me getting a firm grasp of packages, python environments, virtualenv, command line tricks and git all before committing to the PyCharm IDE helped me adopt it with more confidence I was getting the value of all the integration.

Oct 15, 2017 · As the title says I want to install spyder for python3 on my mac. Since I couldn't find any easy installation just by clicking some where. On mac python 2.7 is preinstalled and I already installed python3 which was pretty easy. So I started by installing pip by typing sudo easy_install pip in the command line.

Apr 4, 2011 · It's also easy to keep two python Versions (2.5 & 2.6 in my case) around. I used "compile your own" python to test pre-3.0 python but generally I find managing dependencies to c modules painfull if done by hand. Thanks to easy_install installing pure python modules is fast and easy for all the options mentioned above.

I'm having trouble communicating between my Arduino and Python. I have a couple of questions that I hope can be answered, but first and most importantly, I need to simply establish a connection. For Windows, apparently the solution is rather convenient, but on Mac OS X, I apparently need to access some system files (which I am not familiar with).

Nov 28, 2012 · However, I quickly found out that the IDE uses the Python 2.7 interpreter that came with the system by default. The preferences' currently specified "Python Path" is simply "python". I want to use Python 3.2 all the time, and I guess it's a question of writing or finding the right path in the preferences.

Dec 21, 2015 · Building pygame 1.9.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 using XCode 3.2.6 2012-04-12 I was building this for a binary distribution that would run against python.org's 64-bit Python 2.7.2, for use on Mac OS X 10.6 and later.