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My path with Python IDEs has been: - Visual Studio (when I was a student) - Emacs (when I ceased to be a student) - PyCharm (when my job paid for a license)

My path with Python IDEs has been: - Visual Studio (when I was a student) - Emacs (when I ceased to be a student) - PyCharm (when my job paid for a license) - Sublime Text (when I wanted something comparable to Emacs with some niceties thrown in and a single license cost) All in all I think PyCharm is the most productive I have used. Minimal setup, the best code inspection I have used, nice integrations with things like git out of the box. But Sublime Text has my heart at the moment because with the Emacs Pro package it has a very Emacs-y feel with almost identical key bindings (slight differences here and there). The package manager may be a bit "odd" and feel like a sidecar, but coming from Emacs...it feels pretty straightforward. Sublime Text is also language agnostic so that's a plus. At the moment I use PyCharm Professional for work and Sublime Text for personal stuff...and I think it strikes a good balance. Productivity where my requirements are strict and cost not a factor and flexibility where I like to try new things and recurring fees don't appeal.

cjauvin 9y ago
I have had a similar path, except for VS. I have been happy (and still am) with Emacs for a very long time (in particular, I really like how easy it is to have some code in the left window, which I can easily send to an IPython REPL in the right window), but recently, for a new job, I picked up PyCharm Pro, and I must say that it's been pretty transformative. Three aspects stand out IMO: - It's a fantastic tool to explore and understand big, industrial codebases - The testing and debugging support is stellar - The Emacs binding emulation is great (so it's easy to feel relatively at "home")
- wonderfool 9y ago
  > I really like how easy it is to have some code in the left window, which I can easily send to an IPython REPL in the right window This sounds pretty great. Would you mind explaining how that works? Is it specific to Emacs?
  - cjauvin 9y ago
    It's actually quite easy, as it comes pretty much out of the box with recent versions of Emacs (24+) and python.el (not to be confused with the older python-mode.el). I could not find a nice web source for python.el's documentation, but it turns out that directly reading its code is not so bad in this case: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progmodes/python.el https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progm... In particular, you need to set the `python-shell-interpreter` variable to "ipython" (which must be in your path preferably). You can then invoke `run-python` to start a REPL, and C-c C-c to send a buffer to it. There are a couple more interesting commands with this mode, see: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progmodes/python.el#L323-L329 https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progm...

cjauvin 9y ago

I have had a similar path, except for VS. I have been happy (and still am) with Emacs for a very long time (in particular, I really like how easy it is to have some code in the left window, which I can easily send to an IPython REPL in the right window), but recently, for a new job, I picked up PyCharm Pro, and I must say that it's been pretty transformative. Three aspects stand out IMO: - It's a fantastic tool to explore and understand big, industrial codebases - The testing and debugging support is stellar - The Emacs binding emulation is great (so it's easy to feel relatively at "home")

wonderfool 9y ago
> I really like how easy it is to have some code in the left window, which I can easily send to an IPython REPL in the right window This sounds pretty great. Would you mind explaining how that works? Is it specific to Emacs?
- cjauvin 9y ago
  It's actually quite easy, as it comes pretty much out of the box with recent versions of Emacs (24+) and python.el (not to be confused with the older python-mode.el). I could not find a nice web source for python.el's documentation, but it turns out that directly reading its code is not so bad in this case: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progmodes/python.el https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progm... In particular, you need to set the `python-shell-interpreter` variable to "ipython" (which must be in your path preferably). You can then invoke `run-python` to start a REPL, and C-c C-c to send a buffer to it. There are a couple more interesting commands with this mode, see: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progmodes/python.el#L323-L329 https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progm...