I am a big fan of Wingide ( https://wingware.com/ )- yes is commercial but the wing development team, in my experience, is very reasonable and responsive and they provide a free version which may be all that a lot of people need. It is cross-platform. And if you end up doing serious python work the professional version pays for it self very quickly.
Dominic ________________________________ From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dav Clark Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014 3:46 PM To: Software Subject: [Discuss] Deciding on which IDE I like better I finally taught a full week course with PyCharm. There were things I liked and things I didn't like. It seems the other main contender is Spyder. What I *want* is RStudio for python. RStudio is very well thought out for providing the necessary functionality for beginning users (easy / obvious R-markdown, git, unit test integration). I've started an issue here on "the best IDE" for what will be the Berkeley Common Environment (BCE) editor: https://github.com/dlab-berkeley/collaboratool/issues/82 If anyone would like to chime in on this, I'd be most grateful! [Note - we already ship requirements for the IPython notebook, so that's out of scope.] It's a medium term goal to interface with the Ubuntu Science folks around our choices for BCE and come up with a shared set of practices / packages for an Ubuntu "science" VM. Ideally, that will be of use to Software Carpentry as well! -- Dav Clark Data Scientist UC Berkeley D-Lab dlab.berkeley.edu<http://dlab.berkeley.edu> 510-664-7000
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