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Only if you haven't worked on Pycharm, you can say this. Try the latest Pycharm on a medium/big size project and you will understand. It is the best Python IDE

Only if you haven't worked on Pycharm, you can say this. Try the latest Pycharm on a medium/big size project and you will understand. It is the best Python IDE out there, right now. Nothing even comes close.

spapas82 9y ago
Pycharm is good - I've used it. However there are various disadvantatges to it: a. It is not open source b. It is slow on my (Celeron based) PC c. I don't really need the capabilities of a full-flexed IDE (auto-completion, debug etc) for Python
- SimbaOnSteroids 9y ago
  If you still have a .edu email address they offer a student license but I get the feeling you're doing non educational/hobbyist work so that might violate the TOS
- mundanevoice 9y ago
  Well, I think you are mistaken here. There is an Open Source Community Edition of all versions of Pycharm if you are so inclined to the Open Source. That is quite good enough. Celeron is quite old and slow and it is not fair to expect an IDE to work fast on that old PC. Though you can still disable some advanced features( inspections) and make it reasonably fast. Again, it totally depends on the project you are working. For a reasonable sized project, you can do away with an editor. But with large codebases, IDE support is a great difference. And this is coming from someone who has been writing all his code on Vim for last 6 years or so. Basically, all you require is a productive environment that doesn't hold you back and enables you to write faster and correct code. For me and a lot of other people, Pycharm is quite that tool.
PeterisP 9y ago
Pycharm is good, but it really depends on the project size - I'd use Pycharm for larger projects, but at the same time I'll open smaller separate scripts in Sublime even if I have Pycharm already open.
- mundanevoice 9y ago
  I open vim inside Pycharm's Terminal but most of the time I don't really need to open Sublime/Vim. Pycharm also have scratch file/buffer support and that is quite awesome for one off scripts.

spapas82 9y ago

Pycharm is good - I've used it. However there are various disadvantatges to it: a. It is not open source b. It is slow on my (Celeron based) PC c. I don't really need the capabilities of a full-flexed IDE (auto-completion, debug etc) for Python

SimbaOnSteroids 9y ago
If you still have a .edu email address they offer a student license but I get the feeling you're doing non educational/hobbyist work so that might violate the TOS
mundanevoice 9y ago
Well, I think you are mistaken here. There is an Open Source Community Edition of all versions of Pycharm if you are so inclined to the Open Source. That is quite good enough. Celeron is quite old and slow and it is not fair to expect an IDE to work fast on that old PC. Though you can still disable some advanced features( inspections) and make it reasonably fast. Again, it totally depends on the project you are working. For a reasonable sized project, you can do away with an editor. But with large codebases, IDE support is a great difference. And this is coming from someone who has been writing all his code on Vim for last 6 years or so. Basically, all you require is a productive environment that doesn't hold you back and enables you to write faster and correct code. For me and a lot of other people, Pycharm is quite that tool.

PeterisP 9y ago

Pycharm is good, but it really depends on the project size - I'd use Pycharm for larger projects, but at the same time I'll open smaller separate scripts in Sublime even if I have Pycharm already open.

mundanevoice 9y ago
I open vim inside Pycharm's Terminal but most of the time I don't really need to open Sublime/Vim. Pycharm also have scratch file/buffer support and that is quite awesome for one off scripts.