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Just wanted to throw in some love for Komodo Edit. It's 100% free and awesome. It doesn't force you into the whole "save a project before you can do anything"

• gknoy 14y ago
  Komodo is pretty awesome, but I though I'd chime in with the perspective of someone who switched from Komodo Edit to PyCharm last month. I've been using Komodo Edit for nearly a year, and was quite happy with it as a Python editor. (Our build and test utils are all in makefiles and other scripts, so I run them on the command line.) It's an all-around awesome editor. I switched to PyCharm a month ago and am EXTREMELY happy with it. I have not touched Komodo since then. The ONLY things I miss from Komodo are syntax highlighting of $Everything (e.g. Makefiles, Bash scripts, Perl, etc) and the ability to easily open files from elsewhere (e.g. /tmp/foo.bar). Both are things that Jetbrains have said detracts from their focus of delivering an awesome __Python__ IDE -- and I grudgingly agree. PyCharm is more polished than I'd dreamed - so much so that this is the first time I've been willing to spend money on an editor in over a decade. If you already have an existing project folder, you don't need to create a new Workspace or Project -- just open that folder.