An IDE or Integrated Development Environment provides more than what a code editor does. Besides code writing and editing, IDEs include other features such as build automation, code linting, testing as well as debugging. It helps in enhancing the productivity of a developer by speeding upcoding with fewer efforts. 

In this article, we list down the top 8 alternatives of PyCharm IDE one must know.

(The list is in alphabetical order)

1| Eclipse + PyDev

Eclipse is a popular IDE for Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) where you can easily add more than one language as well as other features apart from the default packages. Using the PyDev plugin, this IDE can be used for Python development, where PyDev is a third-party Python editor for Eclipse. 

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2| IDLE

Python IDLE is an Integrated Development and Learning Environment for Python that includes a number of interactive features such as cross-platform, Python shell window (interactive interpreter) with colourising of code input, output, and error messages, debugger with persistent breakpoints, stepping, and viewing of global and local namespaces. Besides, you can search within any window, replace within editor windows, and search through multiple files (grep), multi-window text editor with multiple undo, Python colourising, smart indent, call tips, auto-completion, and other features.

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3| Jupyter

JupyterLab is a flexible, extensible and web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter notebooks, code, and data. This environment has the capability to configure and arrange the user interface to support a wide range of workflows in data science, scientific computing, and machine learning computations to perform data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modelling, data visualisation, and much more.

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4| Rodeo

Rodeo is a data science Integrated Development Environment for Python. This IDE is designed to be a simple, lightweight alternative to the IPython Notebook that runs on the browser and has the keyboard shortcuts for seamless interactivity. Rodeo uses the IPython kernel under the hood to handle communication between the UI and your Python environment. 

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5| Spyder

The Scientific Python Development Environment or Spyder is one of the popular Python IDEs. The IDE offers a combination of advanced editing, analysis, debugging, including profiling functionality of a comprehensive development tool with tasks such as data exploration, interactive execution, deep inspection, as well as visualisation capabilities of a scientific package. Moreover, this IDE can also be utilised as a PyQt5 extension library to assist developers in creating upon its functionality along with embedding its components, such as the interactive console, in their own PyQt software.

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6| Thonny

Thonny is basically a Python IDE for beginners that comes with Python 3.7 built-in. There are several intuitive features of this IDE such as highlighting the syntax errors, explains scopes, code completion, mode for explaining references, step through expression evaluation, representation of functional calls, and other such.  

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7| Vim

Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing and is often called as a programmer’s editor and an IDE. You can add plugins for syntax highlighting, code completion, debugging, refactoring, etc. to Vim and use it as a Python IDE.

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8| Wing

Wing is an intelligent development environment that is written in Python for Python development. The editor in Wing can speed up the interactive Python development with auto-completion and documentation, inline error detection and code quality analysis, PEP 8 enforcement, invocation assistance, auto-editing, refactoring, code folding, multi-selection, customisable code snippets, and much more. Wing offers hundreds of configuration options affecting editor emulation, display themes, syntax colouring, UI layout, and much moreDownload here.

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